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 Items tagged: irrigationItems Found: 10The Long HaulMay 18, 2012 - 8:58 am Most of Alberta’s 3.6 million residents rely on regulated water systems. But, according to Brent Paterson*, a significant number of Albertans still use water from unregulated groundwater or dugouts. Nearly 700,000 Albertans rely on holes or dammed gullies filled with snowmelt and runoff for year-round... Categories: Features Water in AgricultureOctober 16, 2011 - 5:51 pm In many parts of the world, people are worried about the increase in water scarcity. Greater scarcity can be traced to two trends. The first is an increase in demand for water from increasing population, increasing affluence and a desire to restore natural water flows. The second is a decrease in supply... Categories: Features U of Regina Greywater Reclamation Tech FundedApril 9, 2010 - 8:56 am Dr. Stephanie Young’s research team at the University of Regina will install and pilot test greywater reclamation technology at the campus’ Research & Innovation Centre to prepare it for the commercial marketplace, thanks to a federal and provincial government investment of $202,400 announced... Categories: National, News, Western Canada Myths and LegendsNovember 23, 2009 - 3:21 pm Myth #1: Water is a public good. Water is essential to life. Therefore, some argue, it should be considered public. Food is also essential to life, but one rarely hears an argument that food and farmland are, or should be, public property. In fact, if farmland and food production systems were owned... Categories: Features McCain Revitalizes Wastewater Treatment FacilityOctober 23, 2009 - 2:05 pm A McCain Foods (Canada) plant in Carberry, Manitoba has revitalized a former wastewater lagoon with a wastewater treatment centre and the naturalization of habitat around the area. After an investment of more than $20 million in an advanced wastewater treatment centre and an expanded irrigation... Categories: National, News, Western Canada Smelly CitiesJune 19, 2009 - 1:01 pm Poor Halifax. Since its brand-new, $54-million sewage treatment plant failed on January 14, about 82 million litres of raw sewage per day has flowed directly into Halifax harbour—and, along with the much-publicized "floatables" problem, the smell of sewer gas is growing worse. The smell is so... Categories: Blog Canada and Yukon Coordinate on FarmsApril 28, 2009 - 12:59 pm The governments of Canada and Yukon have signed off on an almost $5-million investment for Yukon farmers with the launch of a new suite programs under Growing Forward. The funding and programs are a result of new bilateral agreements that reflect a five-year commitment to help position Canadian farmers... Categories: News, Northern Canada B.C. Releases Irrigation CalculatorApril 24, 2009 - 1:04 pm The Irrigation Scheduling Calculator that the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture has been working on the past few years is now live and operational. The calculator will provide users with an irrigation schedule using real-time climate data from Farmwest. The calculator works for most irrigation... Categories: News, Western Canada Growing Forward: Expect More TomatoesApril 17, 2009 - 7:17 am A new $1.9-million pipeline project, announced yesterday, will provide a source of water for tomato farmers in Leamington, Ontario. The funding, which comes from the Canada-Ontario Water Supply Expansion Program (aptly referred to as COWSEP), will help the Leamington Area Drip Irrigation Inc. with... Annapolis Valley to Undergo Groundwater SurveyJanuary 5, 2009 - 12:07 pm Farmers and other groundwater users in the Annapolis Valley are being asked to take part in a study that will help to improve water-use planning. The departments of Natural Resources, Environment, and Agriculture, as well as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News |
