Source Water Protection Workshop-in-a-Box

Conservation Ontario’s Source Water Protection Workshop-in-a-Box is a portable tool kit created to help you conduct modular, interactive workshops that meet the needs of the audiences in your community.

The materials in the SWP Workshop-in-a-Box include PowerPoint presentations, graphic files you can use to create handouts, even suggested activities and tips on running a workshop. This product will help you educate, promote action, build capacity, empower and initiate positive behavior change.

If you are interested in receiving a CD ROM with all of the Workshop-in-a-Box materials, please contact:

Tina Kilbourne
120 Bayview Parkway, Box 11
Newmarket Ontario, L3Y 4W3
905-895-0716 ext. 233
tkilbourne@conservationontario.on.ca

• Module 1: Introduction to Source Water Protection
  1. What is source water? (including information on the hydrologic cycle, surface water, groundwater, how everything is connected)
  2. Why it is important to protect source water
  3. The role of SWP has in protecting human health, ecosystems and economies
  4. The mulit-barrier approach to source water protection
  5. What watersheds are and how they work
  6. Proposed Watershed Regions in Ontario
  7. Local watershed characteristics
  Sample Presentation (pdf)

  
  
  
• Module 2: Threats to Source Water
  1. Natural threats to source water
  2. Human threats to source water
  3. Human contaminants
  4. Point source pollutions
  5. Non-point source pollutions
  6. Impacts on source water: water usage and myths
  7. Local threats to source water
  Sample Presentation (pdf)
  
  
• Module 3: Protection Source Water
  1. Who's been protecting source water (overview of municipal, provincial and federal responsibilities; CA, CO and First Nation involvement)
  2. Who is responsible for protecting source water going forward?
  3. Source Protection Planning and what is involved
  4. Source Protection Committees
  5. Process involved in creating plans
  6. Who is involved in creating plans and monitoring plans
  7. Where we will start in creating plans
  8. Impact of Source Protection
  9. Factors for Success
  Sample Presentation (pdf)
  
  
  
• Module 4: What You Can Do to Protect Source Water
  (under development)

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