REFLECTION: Finding My Inner Tank Girl: Water as a Channel to Political Action.

The author describes actions she has taken to help protect her community's drinking water from Shawnigan Lake after British Columbia's government issued a permit to South Island Aggregates allowing it to fill its quarry pit near the lake with contaminated soil. She discusses her efforts to have the permit revoked in the light of the Mount Polley tailings dam collapse that contaminated creeks and lakes. She criticizes the failure of professional reliance to ensure natural resource management.