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 Items tagged: chlorineItems Found: 7Don't Drink the WaterMarch 3, 2012 - 2:12 pm When Attawapiskat First Nation declared a state of emergency in October 2011, Charlie Angus (MP Timmins-James Bay) visited the community to find out why. “It was like stepping into a fourth world,” Angus wrote in an article for the Huffington Post Canada. Among several serious concerns about shelter... Categories: Features Chefs Against ChlorineApril 26, 2010 - 10:37 am Vancouver's celebrated tap water is apparently not a hit with everyone. An article in last week's Vancouver Sun featured an interview with Chef Pino Posteraro, owner of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, who says that he "can't stand the strong flavour of chlorine" in the City's water, and suspects... Categories: Blog Pollution Data Would Help Drinking Water Protection: ReportJanuary 7, 2010 - 10:01 am Federal pollution data would give valuable additional information to the program created to protect sources of Ontarians' drinking water, says a new report from the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and Environmental Defence. The report tracks and maps pollution from facilities reporting... GPS: A Salt Solution?November 25, 2009 - 2:14 pm As winter approaches and the threat of black ice returns, cities once again find themselves facing the age-old question of salt use. Sure, salt is cheap and effective, and it makes roads safer. But the issue isn’t just costs—it’s also chlorine. The large quantity of chlorine in salt poses... Categories: Blog A Lesson in UVSeptember 29, 2009 - 12:36 pm Although many people think that treating water with ultraviolet light is a new idea, the ability of ultraviolet light to disinfect microbes was discovered at the turn of the 20th century. The first installation using ultraviolet (UV) light to disinfect public drinking water was in Marseille, France... Categories: Blog $10.5M for Quebec Water InfrastructureSeptember 4, 2009 - 12:23 pm Quebec’s Municipality of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds will receive $10,561,102 in joint government financial assistance under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec to carry out major water infrastructure work. The funding will bring the municipality’s drinking water facilities... Niagara Tries Chlorine-Free Sewage TreatmentNovember 5, 2008 - 11:24 am Onita Basu, an Ottawa professor, wants to eliminate chlorine from municipal sewage treatment using an organic replacement called peracetic acid, reports St. Catharines, Ont.'s The Standard. Grimsby's Baker Road sewage plant is the first in Canada to test the chlorine-free treatment, although it's... |
