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		<title>Manitoba Considers New Groundwater Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New rules being proposed this week would replace Manitoba&#8217;s almost 50-year-old groundwater regulations as part of a strategy to better protect the 25 per cent of Manitobans who rely on well water, Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh announced today. About 1,500 water wells are drilled in Manitoba each year. There are currently about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B.C. Showcases River Remediation Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victoria public had the opportunity to learn more about river remediation at an open house at British Columbia&#8217;s Goldstream Provincial Park this past weekend. The event highlighted remediation work in the surrounding area and river after a Columbia Fuels truck overturned in April of last year, spilling 42,000 litres of gasoline and 600 litres of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 23-26, 2012: CanWell: Canadian Groundwater Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamilton, ON Website: Click here. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Manitoba Seeks Input on New Groundwater and Water Well Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manitoba is seeking input from the public, the water well-drilling industry, the geothermal industry, and other stakeholders on a new Groundwater and Water Well Act. Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh made the announcement last week on World Water Day, asking the public to review and provide comments on the proposed changes. &#8220;More than 25 per cent of Manitobans regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 27-28, 2012: Emerging Issues in Groundwater Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Antonio, TX Website: Click here. Join fellow groundwater professionals to explore potential resolutions to emerging groundwater issues such as stress on resources &#8212; both in quantity and quality&#8211;from growing populations; increased demand on water used for developing and producing energy, both traditional and &#8220;green&#8221;; and nanotechnology. Conference sessions Three-Dimensional Mapping, Imaging, and Geospatial Applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEMA Forms Groundwater Working Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) has launched a new Groundwater Working Group (GWWG) to focus on improving scientific knowledge of regional groundwater systems using effective characterization, monitoring, and modelling approaches that, according to a press release, &#8220;support and promote the overall objective of watershed integrity.&#8221; The GWWG will develop recommendations for regional groundwater quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftershocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nuclear disasters caused by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan have heated up concerns over water safety and radiation. Authorities reported increases of radioactive iodine in water sources surrounding the Fukushima site. The major issue? Steam released from the nuclear plants included radionuclides. A radionuclide is an atom with an unstable nucleus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wells Worth Monitoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our Canada Water Week series, we spoke with Jennifer West about the Ecology Action Centre&#8217;s plans to celebrate and get communities involved in water stewardship. Nova Scotia’s Ecology Action Centre is using Canada Water Week and World Water Day to draw attention to one of its ongoing projects, led by groundwater coordinator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threats to Groundwater Supplies Require Coordinated Response: Paper</title>
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		<comments>http://watercanada.net/2011/threats-to-canadas-groundwater-supplies-require-coordinated-response-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better oversight of Canada’s groundwater resources is required in the face of numerous challenges, according to a study released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In Protecting Groundwater: The Invisible and Vital Resource (pdf), James Bruce, recently chair of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Groundwater,  assesses present and emerging threats and makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta to Survey Groundwater Supply</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low-flying helicopters will be mapping 18,000 square kilometres of underground water resources in southern Alberta, starting February 5. Residents and motorists may notice helicopters towing specialized equipment in the skies within an area stretching from approximately Calgary and Drumheller to Fort Macleod and Vauxhall. The technique, called airborne geophysics, uses electromagnetic waves to help locate [...]]]></description>
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