Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being: Lessons from the Coquitlam Watershed and Beyond.

The issue of human well-being or “happiness” receives considerable attention in annual UN reports ranking countries by happiness. Though well-being, or quality of life, is strongly influenced by health and economics, it is also tightly linked to other key factors. Read more about this, and how it relates to the Coquitlam River watershed, in an article written by Roundtable Core Committee member Dr. Craig Orr for the BC Water and Waste Association’s Watermark Magazine, Winter 2015.

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The Coquitlam River Watershed Society operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation). We thank the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.