CONFLUENCE 2024

NEXT WAVE OF ACTION ON COMMUNITY-DRIVEN WATER MONITORING

About Confluence: Confluence is an open workshop spotlighting the new wave of action on community-driven water monitoring. The 2 day event includes a panel on the work of Indigenous-led land and water projects in Toronto; a panel on the work of Nations and communities engaged in regular water monitoring with Water Rangers; a panel on action/outreach/research needed based on this monitoring; and a panel on policy, planning and governance implications. In addition there will be roundtables and informal discussions over food, for all participants, to discuss the panels, work needed, and possible collaborative actions, and a community-based arts project presented by Earthworks Vision.

This event is supported by a SSHRC Connection Grant, Water Allies, Water Rangers, and Water Pathways.

GRATITUDE

Water Rangers and Water Allies wish to thank the following for their support of, and contributions to, this workshop:

• Red Sky Candles, a company owned by Jackie Esquimau Hamlin, Anishnabekwe from Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation, Manitoulin Island
• Mathew Wells and Cosima Porteus, Directors of the Water Pathways Project at the University of Toronto Scarborough
• The instructors and students of the Toronto Climate Summer School (Dr. Robert Soden, Dr. Rohini Patel, Drin Brown, Michaella Chang, Angelia Chin, Assouma Hammond, Sharvi Jain)
• Star Nahwegahbo and Ikinori Lau of Earthworks Vision
• New College Room Booking Staff
• Kiersten Mccutcheon, Praise Osifo, Nikolas Maclean, and Laura Gilbert from Water Rangers
• Tariq Harney (University of Toronto Excellence Award Recipient)
• Lilly Haughton and Miranda Black (Water Allies)
• Graham Perry (videographer)

We are grateful to be able to work together with and for the water.