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Broadcaster urges protection of drinking water sources
Dove Sykes
OinnEMMOMO
An estimated 220 people converged
in Goderich dune 23 to hear one of
Canada's foremost science journal-
ists and broadcasters speak on water
issues, climate change and the need
for alternative energy sources.
The Ausable Bayfield Maitland
Valley Drinking Water Source Pro-
tection Region invited Bob McDon-
ald, host of CBC radio's Quirks and
Quarks and TV Ontario's Heads Up!,
to speak to the public on water pro-
tection.
There is no other known world that
can support human life, according to
McDonald.
"It's very"
beautiful, it's exquisite,
it's unique, he told the crowd at the
Columbus Centre.
The well-known author compared
the Earth to the `Garden of Eden' but
he said it's a very fragile planet too.
"A (planet with a) thin film of water,
a thin bubble of air — that's where we
live," he said.
He said the planet may look, from
afar, like it is blue and has lots of wa-
ter but he used a pitcher and a glass
- removing the undrinkable water
until only a drop was left — to illus- scored the fragility of
trate that very little of the world's the planet but he also
•water is fit for drinking. offered a message of
"Only 0.1 per cent of all the water hope.
in the world is available for us to "Look how far we
drink," he said. ' have come, look what
McDonald complimented the peo- we have done, I think
ple of the Huron County region for we can apply the
their active local involvement in pro- , same creativity and
tecting the fragile sources of drink- the same ingenuity
ing water. and figure out how to
He said Canada has so much of the get through this (and
world's scarce fresh water supplies find) new ways to turn
that "we are the water keepers." wheels, other ways to
The speaker said there is no doubt keep ourselves warm,
the planet's climate is changing. other ways to move
"Yes, the Earth is getting warmer," from here to there,"
he said. he said. "We've got
The problem is not just that the to take care of this
planet is getting warmer, he said, beautiful (planet) be -
but that the planet is getting hotter cause that's all there is."
at an unprecedented rate. Goderich Coun. David Yates intro -
The speaker's visuals, showing duced McDonald to the crowd. .
the accelerated decline in northern He also complimented the region
sea ice,, painted a stark picture for on its "truly unique" efforts to in -
the audience. The anticipated melt- clude members of the public in local,
ing of permafrost is likely to release community Source Protection work -
methane and pose a greenhouse gas ing groups.
impact ten .times more severe than The more than 75 community
carbon dioxide, he said. working group members have just
.The noted science journalist under- completed a year and a half of study
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