Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
Brewing beer is a thirsty business. On average, it takes around eight litres of water to brew a single litre of beer. But one Niagara brewery is on a mission to half that. When Bench Brewing opened its brewery in Beamsville in 2018, the team was eager to make sure the operations wasted as little water as possible.
