ELMVALE ONTARIO – Building on the United Nation’s 2010 World Water Day (WWD) theme of Clean Water for a Healthy World, the Elmvale Foundation (EF) will be hosting World Water Day at the Elmvale Community Centre March 28: A morning Town Hall session 9:00 a.m.- 12:00 on the… “future management of waste and it’s impact on local water,”
An afternoon keynote speaker presentation 2:00 p.m.-5:00, Dr. Brian Petri [bio below] to answer the questions that you’ve always wanted to ask… “what’s in the water that I drink and enjoy everyday?” “This unique combination of events lets the community get together, learn about, and discuss ways to improve “waste stream management in Simcoe County,” says Michael Powell, Executive Director of the yearly Elmvale Water Festival, scheduled for August 21, 2010.
The format for the Town Hall morning meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. is open access, where people and groups from the community, representatives from private and public sectors are invited to share their views on how Simcoe County can improve the process of “waste management” and bring it in line with the needs of the community. Members of the EWF will facilitate these collaborative improvement sessions.
Starting at 2 p.m. the World Water Day keynote speaker will be Dr. Brian Petri, Senior Research Scientist from Trojan Technologies. Dr. Petri’s presentation will draw from a lifetime of global experience on “how and why do we treat water to keep waste out of it.”
With a Bachelor and Master Degree in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry from University of Toronto, and a Ph.D in Biology from York University, and 11 years as Senior Scientist at Trojan Technologies, Dr. Petri is uniquely qualified to help all who attend this free event to learn how we keep our drinking water clean and manage waste water.
Dr. William Shotyk, founder of the Elmvale Foundation and a Canadian Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, invited Dr. Petri to be the World Water Day keynote speaker because he feels strongly that we need to know “which water we should drink. The crisis in Walkerton pushed many people to drink bottled water. With leaching from bottle containers, why aren’t more people drinking municipal water from their taps. I believe we need to know what is in the water we drink and we have to work together to protect and enhance the purity of this water so we can stay healthy as individuals and keep our community drinking water that is safe and enjoyable.” Dr. Shotyk, whose research focuses on the study of trace metals in the environment, has long believed that the spring water found near his family’s farm in Elmvale, Ontario is the best tasting water anywhere.
Scientific testing in Shotyk’s lab has shown that Springwater Township in which Elmvale is located has groundwater of remarkable purity, a discovery that helped inspire Shotyk to create the yearly Elmvale Water Festival which is scheduled for August 21, 2010.
The Elmvale Water Festival is hosted by the Elmvale Foundation, a Canadian, federally registered charity created for environmental education. “We protect what we value, we value what we understand”.
ABOUT ELMVALE FESTIVAL FOUNDER, DR. WILLIAM SHOTYK
William Shotyk founded the Elmvale Foundation in 2007, a registered charity for environmental science education, and serves as the Foundation’s President and CEO. He was born in the Village of Swansea, now part of the City of Toronto, Ontario. He received his B.Sc. (Agr.) in Soil Science and Chemistry from the University of Guelph in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario in 1987. Following postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside and UWO, he worked at the University of Berne in Switzerland where he completed a Habilitation in Geochemistry, in 1995. After 12 years at the University of Berne, he became Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, in October of 2000. His research group is responsible for Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry, with state-of-the-art metal-free clean lab facilities and sector- field ICP-MS for measuring trace elements and Pb isotope ratios at extremely low concentrations. The main research areas are human impacts on the geochemical cycles of potentially toxic trace elements such as Pb, Sb, As, Cd and Hg, including
archives of atmospheric change (ombrotrophic peat bogs and polar ice cores), fate in soils and sediments, and impacts on natural freshwaters. A member of the American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, and the Geochemical Society, he has published more than 170 articles, including 130 in refereed journals, as well as in conference proceedings, books, and newspapers.
Trojan Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation of Washington, D.C. Trojan designs, manufactures, and sells UV systems for municipal wastewater and drinking water facilities, as well as for the industrial, commercial and residential markets. The company also provides UV treatment for the removal of certain chemicals from water. With over 6000 municipal facilities in more than 80 countries using its technology, Trojan has the largest installed base of UV systems in the world. Headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, the company also has offices in the U.K., Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, and the U.S.
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