Items tagged: United Nations Environment Programme

Items Found: 3

$3.75M Invested in Water Quality Research

March 22, 2010 - 11:57 am

The feds are making an investment in water quality research at the Universities of Lethbridge and Saskatchewan.Today'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...

Categories: National, News, Western Canada

A Nice Cold Drink

March 16, 2010 - 9:57 am

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...

Categories: Features

Cold Snap

July 27, 2009 - 12:00 am

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...