As Prairie Water News heads into its fourth year of publication, the Editorial Advisory Committee will be reviewing its objectives and operations. We want to ensure that the newsletter continues to meet the information needs of rural water users across the Prairies in a timely and cost-effective manner. Such a review is important at this time due to changing responsibilities amongst the agencies represented on the Committee, and to declining provincial and federal resources.
The opinions and suggestions of our readers are a very important part of the review and we welcome your feedback at any time. To guide me in my role as the new Editor, however, I would greatly appreciate it if you would complete and return the attached Reader Survey at your earliest convenience. Questions relate to content, style, distribution and cost. Please let us know if you would like information on a particular problem or subject and we will try to include an article in a future issue. Suggestions on how to improve the newsletter would also be most welcome.
I would like to take this opportunity to say that, as Editor, I look forward to working with the Prairie Water News team over the next three years. Since the first issue in 1991, the newsletter has received praise for its content and readability. Our main challenge will be to ensure that articles continue to provide accurate, up- to-date and practical information of interest and benefit to rural water users and that the information reaches its intended audience.
On behalf of the Editorial Advisory Committee, I wish to acknowledge the support and leadership provided by the Saskatchewan Research Council during the first three years of Prairie Water News. Special thanks go to Prue Greenidge for her work as Editor, to Hans Piek for design and production, and to George Mackay for his continuing financial support.
Esther Kienholz