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 Items tagged: Nova ScotiaItems Found: 27Five NS Water Projects Receive FundingMarch 9, 2009 - 9:05 am Five communities in the Kings County, N.S. area will have better drinking water and wastewater treatment systems with funding from three levels of government. More than $6 million under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund was announced on March 6. The Municipality of Kings project... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News Upgrade for Yarmouth’s Wastewater SystemFebruary 9, 2009 - 9:27 am Residents of the town of Yarmouth and surrounding areas will soon have a more efficient wastewater treatment plant. The province is investing $340,000 to upgrade the town's wastewater treatment system. The project includes supplying and installing equipment to remove residual chlorine from wastewater... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News Pictou County to See Wastewater ImprovementsJanuary 12, 2009 - 1:29 pm Residents in New Glasgow, Stellarton, Trenton, Westville, and the Municipality of Pictou, Nova Scotia, will see improved wastewater treatment thanks to a shared investment by the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund. Federal, provincial... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News 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 CUPE Wants NS to ‘Ditch the Bottle’December 12, 2008 - 10:15 am A broad-based coalition of organizations in Nova Scotia has come together to convince municipalities and school boards that the sale and provision of bottled water in their facilities is a very 'un-green' and 'un-economical' thing to be doing. To launch the 'Campaign to Turn on the Tap and Ditch the... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News Wilderness Area Protects Amherst's WaterDecember 11, 2008 - 1:19 pm The Town of Amherst's drinking water supply is now better protected with the designation of watershed lands as a provincial wilderness area. Nine-hundred and seventy hectares of Amherst-owned lands, northeast of the town, make up the new Chignecto Isthmus Wilderness Area in Nova Scotia. "We are... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News $8.7 Invested in N.S. WaterAugust 14, 2008 - 11:49 am Nine Nova Scotia communities will benefit from safer drinking water and improved storm water systems due to a shared investment by three levels of government. Federal, provincial and municipal funding of $8,725,590 was announced on August 12 in Truro by Karen Casey, minister of education, on behalf... Categories: News |
