1. WELCome!

2. Rotary World Affairs Conference Fort Wayne, Indiana November 10, 2016
Open Discussion Questions
Janina Douglas
Chairman, 2016 Rotary Lake Erie Watershed Conference
Seagate Conference Center, Toledo, Ohio
Rotary District 6600 and Toledo Rotary Club

3. The Problem - Water

4. The Question What can you do at home to use less water?
- How would your life change every day?
- Do we need a green lawn?
- Do we let the water run when brushing teeth?
- Flush toilets
High flow vs low flow?
Flush vs composting?
- Collecting and reusing greywater?

5. The Problem - Sanitation
Women and girls living without a toilet spend 266 million hours each day finding a place to go.4

6. The Question How can we help with water and sanitation systems?
-Where would you have to go to get water if you had to carry it from a stream? Could you carry that much water?
- What is an outhouse?
- How would your life be different if you had to use one?
- Are there some people near us who don’t have access to indoor, flush toilets?

7. The Problem
…in August 2014, for 2 ½ days there was NO SAFE tap water to half a million people in metro Toledo, Ohio.
…in June 2016, the city of Defiance, Ohio had to shut down recreational use of its rivers due to toxic algae in the water

8. The Problem

9. The Problem Too much phosphorus finding its way
to Lake Erie from… fields, CAFO’s, septic systems,
WWTP’s, lawns, combined sewers

10. The Problem/Question
Where is the algae and nutrient pollution coming from?
- Fertilizer runoff; farm fields, golf courses, lawns…
- Factory Farms, CAFO’s; Confined Animal Feeding Operations
- Wastewater Treatment plants, Septic systems
- Urban areas, industrial and retail buildings and parking lots, storm runoff and combined sewers
- Story of Sri Lanka – North and South

11. of too much phosphorus…
The Result
of too much phosphorus…
… in Florida this year

12. The Problem Marketing Northeast Indiana to the World
- Promote the region through consistent and targeted national and international message
- Produce targeted national advertising campaigns to promote Northeast Indiana’s brand with key audiences
- Use the region’s brand developed in the Our Story Project in all materials and messaging

13. The Question We are still polluting the water we have.
How could toxic-contaminated water effect business and jobs? And your life?
- How would it increase costs to restaurants, manufacturing, farms and food processing?
- How could changing farm practices impact your life? Will you pay more money for food? For a McDonalds Q’Pounder with Cheese?
- How would it impact tourism?
- How could this impact your future?

14. What we did today is the first step.
Hope For The Future
We have the talents to figure these issues out. It will take some of us to be good scientists, some of us to be good politicians, some of us to be good farmers and ALL OF US to be good problem solvers.
What we did today is the first step.
Remember:
This group of Rotarians are here to help with this process. Ask them to get involved with your ideas and solutions.

15. Be a Problem Solver!
Thank You!

16. World Affairs Conference
Thank You!