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 Items tagged: Environmental DefenceItems Found: 4Great Lakes, WastedJuly 5, 2010 - 11:31 am More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great Lakes region of Ontario and Quebec, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. Down the Drain: Water Conservation in the Great Lakes... Categories: International, National, News, Ontario, Quebec 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... Leaking Legacy: ReportDecember 9, 2008 - 12:23 pm Though Alberta's government has proclaimed it false, a new report from issued by Environmental Defence claims that over four billion litres of contaminated tailings water enters the groundwater each year as a result of oil sands operations. New projects, it adds, could expand this number to over 25 billion... Categories: News, Western Canada Waterloo Region Sends Message to Water BottlersSeptember 10, 2008 - 12:37 pm Toronto, Ont.-Waterloo Region is the next in the growing list of municipalities taking steps to reducing bottled water use. Yesterday, the Planning and Works Committee voted to recommend to council a motion that will see the end of single-use bottled water sales in many public facilities. "A growing... Advertisement
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