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	<description>Okanagan Basin Water Board  - Reflections on Okanagan water</description>
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		<title>Our water future is just beginning</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/11/our-water-future-is-just-beginning/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 02:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water Act Modernization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Patience, time and money accommodate all things.&#8221; &#8211; Spanish Proverb BC is in the middle of another resource development boom. Water isn&#8217;t one of them, but as always, is central to everything. More than 100 years ago, the Water Act was &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/11/our-water-future-is-just-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not waiting for Noah</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/09/on-not-waiting-for-noah/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flooding]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Planning is best done in advance.&#8221; &#8211; Anonymous Flying into Calgary at the end of June, everyone on the plane was glued to the windows, staring at the mess of mud and debris from the Great Flood. Eventually, rivers always &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/09/on-not-waiting-for-noah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Zebra mussels: scarier than Jurassic Park.</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/09/zebra-mussels-scarier-than-jurassic-park/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8217;ll clump on rock, they&#8217;ll clump in pipe, and they&#8217;ll clump mussel-next-to-mussel-atop-mussel in astonishing congregations of as many as 70,000 individuals a square foot&#8221; &#8211; Sue McGrath It&#8217;s hard to get people excited about invisible threats that haven&#8217;t arrived yet, but &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/09/zebra-mussels-scarier-than-jurassic-park/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Water Day, every day</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/03/water-day-every-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t every day Water Day?&#8221; &#8211; Peter Gleick, on Twitter Dear Readers, Canada Water Week, and World Water Day (March 22) have come and gone, and I hope you all took the opportunity to lift a long, cool glass &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2013/03/water-day-every-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lessons from Sandy: disaster isn&#8217;t our only option</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/11/lessons-from-sandy-disaster-isnt-our-only-option/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Do we renovate? Of course we renovate,” Ms. Fisher said. “But what if it happens again, next year and the year after?” &#8211; NY Times, 11/23/2012. Unpleasant Weather: Mother Nature gave us a good smacking in 2012, as if to say &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/11/lessons-from-sandy-disaster-isnt-our-only-option/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dirt Makes the Difference.</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/10/the-dirt-makes-the-difference/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Political stability, environmental quality, hunger, and poverty all have the same root. In the long run, the solution to each is restoring…the soil.&#8221; Rattan Lal Soil/Water Conservation: Coming in from the garden this weekend, I went straight to the sink &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/10/the-dirt-makes-the-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Value of Water</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/09/the-value-of-water/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.” – Benjamin Franklin Expensive On Other Planets:  In Salt Lake City, I once met &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/09/the-value-of-water/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting beyond inertia and disaster-driven policy response</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/07/getting-beyond-inertia-and-disaster-driven-policy-response/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really there is no normal.  There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.“ –  Meryl Streep I’ve been writing about change lately – change in climate &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/07/getting-beyond-inertia-and-disaster-driven-policy-response/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mud-bogging and other ways we love the land too hard</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/07/mud-bogging-and-other-ways-we-love-the-land-too-hard/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ “And now you can’t even take your rubber off the road without getting a fine or be accused of tearing up delicate marshland water sheds or creeks&#8230; some people love driving a truck thru the mud getting stuck. And having &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/07/mud-bogging-and-other-ways-we-love-the-land-too-hard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Weddings, weird weather, and where to fit everyone</title>
		<link>https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/06/weddings-weird-weather-and-where-to-fit-everyone/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Warwick Sears]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.” – William Jennings Bryan I&#8217;m calling 2012 &#8220;the year of weddings and babies&#8221; &#8211; there are dozens popping up on my &#8230; <a href="https://obwb.ca/blog/2012/06/weddings-weird-weather-and-where-to-fit-everyone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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