2022 President’s message

ALAN HARRIS

Iwould like to thank the Board and members of the association for having given me the opportunity to serve as president over the past year. We’ve gone through some challenging times over the past several years with the COVID crises that fell upon us. I hope you have all been successful in your various directions and challenges involving northern water and waste during this period. It was great to see how many of you were able to attend the conference in Yellowknife.

The timing and organization of our yearly event continues to cause us organizational challenges. Travel limitations due to weather and access from some communities can create problems with attendance. The flight schedules and potential conflicts with other scheduled is a yearly juggling act for the conference and the operator training that follows the conference. Every year seems to throw something else at us.

The NTWWA Board has always attempted to maintain a close balance of representatives from both Nunavut and the NWT. We have faced some challenges over these past couple of years with several Board members stepping down due to ongoing changes in life, their location, and careers. We’ve been very fortunate during this time to have had volunteers’ step into those positions with not M being able to meet for face to face for our annual meeting where we hold board elections.

Our past president Olivia Lee has advised us that she will no longer be seeking a position on the Board. In her time in the various roles with the NTWWA, she has helped in the operations, organization of annual conferences, and NTWWA activities for over 15 years. Thank you, Olivia, for all the time and effort you have spent on our behalf.

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Our long-time Administrator Pearl Benyk also advised us earlier this year that she is planning to retire after the conference this year. Thank you, Pearl, for always taking care of the many administrative tasks for the association, and in particular managing the chaos the is involved with organizing the annual conference. After 23 busy years of working with NTWWA, you will be deeply missed. I also want to thank all the current board members for their involvement in the association. A special thanks to Rob Osborne, our Executive Director also serving as a regular Director. As well, Greg Hamann for representing us in the Western Canada Water association and to our Southern director Kyle Humphrey. I’d also want to thank Ken Johnson for his continued commitment to the contributions, publication, and focused content of the NTWWA Journal.

I’d like to finish with a quote from the poet W.H. Auden:

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. S

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