Salt Spring Island Water Preservation Society

Free Tour: Rainwater Collection

3/17/2021

Create your own inexpensive rainwater collection system for
garden and outdoor chores

Tours by appointment March - May
Call Sharon Bywater (250) 537-5000

Sponsored by the Salt Spring Island Water Preservation Society
& Salt Spring Is. Watershed Protection Alliance

Masks and social distancing will be required

Our FreshWater Catalogue: A News Brief

1/30/2020

Officially launched in April 2018, our WPS Salt Spring Island FreshWater Catalogue project is on track for a solid second year, moving from a project startup "push" to an active project "pull." We have a growing number of project volunteers, have been successful in a key grant application, and have reached more 250 islanders with our educational outreach.

As a reminder, the FreshWater Catalogue (aka SSIFWC) is about

raising community awareness about the island’s surface freshwater diversity and ecosystems diversity;
gathering data on island freshwater in support of island-wide water resource quantification; and
supporting the development of island area(s) watershed stewardship.

FreshWater Catalogue and Questionnaire

5/7/2018

Do you want to know more about the Salt Spring Island FreshWater Catalogue (SSIFWC) project or about how to get involved?

The following downloadable document provides a short briefing about our SSIFWC project and a questionnaire for potential volunteers.

Your answers to the short SSIFWC questionnaire will help us identify which volunteer role(s) may be best suited to you. If you are interested in being involved, please download and complete the form below and forward to the project coordinator at [email protected].

Topical Water Tips

4/5/2018

The following “RAM pump” 101 sketch accompanies a Water Preservation Society "Topical Tips" article in the Gulf Islands Driftwood on water catchment. Find It Here.

John Millson's Ideas for His Role as Board Member

1/7/2018

Fellow water-conscious folks,

As a way of introduction, I would like to use this blog post as a way to say “Hi,” to tell you a little about myself, and to provide an outline of what I plan to do as a volunteer within the Salt Spring Island Water Protection Society (WPS).

Author

The SSI Water Preservation Society is a non-profit society that has been working to protect the water and watersheds of Salt Spring’s drinking-water lakes since 1982. The Society also owns and manages 272 forested acres on the slopes west of St. Mary Lake now protected by a conservation covenant.