Water rights and water fights: new article from The Narwhal sheds light on the connection between logging and water, featuring one Kootenay community

Glade Watershed Protection, an advocacy group based in the Kootenay region of BC and IWTF member, was featured in a recent Narwhal piece.

Wynndel is about halfway between Nelson and Cranbrook in the Kootenays in southeast British Columbia. Private logging is widespread in the region. Some communities have tried pushing back, but their efforts have run up against private ownership and lax regulations. After residents of Glade, a nearby community, mounted a legal challenge to private logging near their community water supply, a B.C. Supreme Court judge concluded British Columbians do not have any inherent right to clean drinking water.

Click here to read the full article from The Narwhal.