Dr. Paul Bach lived in the Columbia Valley for 10 years prior to moving to Vancouver where he now lives. He has travelled throughout many of Canada’s remote and rural areas as a physician serving smaller communities, including the Canadian high Arctic, the Atlantic provinces as well the BC interior including the Columbia Valley. Paul has been a director for the Land Conservancy of BC and has over 10 years of board experience in the non for profit sector. As a physician, scientist, and environmental advocate, Paul understands the vital interconnections between the health of our ecosystems, the health of our planet and the health of humans and the health of water that connects them all.