The Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) is considering a plan to privatize the new water treatment plant which will provide drinking water to lower mainland residents. Who should be managing our water resources? Private business or elected governments? Can global trade agreements like NAFTA and FTAA make it difficult to get control back once we've handed it over? Who can we trust to provide water that's safe, affordable and accountable?

These are some of the questions examined at a 2nd major public forum on water ( see CUPE BC Public Forum on Water ) held recently in the Vancouver Area, on Tuesday June 5, 2001 at the Vancouver Public Library. It was sponsored by the Council of Canadians, the Labour Environment Alliance Society and the Society for the Promotion of Environmental Conservation.