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		<title>$3.75M Invested in Water Quality Research</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feds are making an investment in water quality research at the Universities of Lethbridge and Saskatchewan.Today&#8217;s investment totals $3.75 million and will go towards research projects that will ultimately assist organizations in making environmentally-responsible decisions aimed at preserving water quality. Environment Canada will provide more than $1.5 million of in-kind support and Western Economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nice Cold Drink</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conventional technologies for drinking water treatment are no longer considered adequate for ensuring the delivery of potable water to communities. This is particularly true in smaller, more remote communities, where the infrastructure for treatment of both drinking water and wastewater may be limited. Protecting the quality and quantity of drinking water at its source is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Snap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just south of the Arctic Circle in the small Nunavut hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet—or in Inuktitut, Igluligaarjuk—a sewage truck dumps its potent—smelling load into a shallow hole in the ground about three kilometres from the community. The sewage seeps out of this natural depression in the bedrock and flows through a 900-metre stretch of natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Invests $4.5M in UN Water Program</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of World Water Day, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice announced that Canada will invest $2.5 million over five years to support the United Nations Environment Programme&#8217;s (UNEP) Global Environment Monitoring System GEMS/Water, an international water science program aimed at understanding inland quality issues around the world. The $2.5 million will allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prentice Takes Action Against Mercury</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, has issued a statement on international agreement to work towards a UN treaty that would reduce the amount of mercury entering the environment. The minister supports the treaty &#8220;to control this harmful substance.&#8221; &#8220;Canada was among the first countries to stress the importance of securing a legally binding agreement [...]]]></description>
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