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COMMENTARY: Celebrate World Rivers Day on Sept. 27

In 2005, the United Nations launched the Water for Life Decade to help create a greater awareness of the urgent need to care for our precious water resources.

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In that year Mark Angelo, a renowned B.C. river advocate who has explored nearly a thousand rivers, proposed the establishment of a single day to highlight the vital importance of rivers in our ecosystems – and World Rivers Day was born.

“Rivers are the........

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