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		<title>Democratizing Data to Build a Blue Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest column is part of Building Our Blue Future, a monthly web series that narrates Canada’s water story as it happens. In 2003, Don Tapscott published a book called The Naked Corporation, which declared that the boundary-less immediacy of the Internet would expose business practices and radically change how business behaved. His message, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.S. Government Addressing Water Quality Concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Land inspections, more water quality testing and new regulations are some of the actions the Nova Scotia government is taking to address water quality in the province&#8217;s Carleton River Watershed. The Department of Environment released a report yesterday outlining the state of 10 lakes within the Carleton River watershed in Yarmouth and Digby counties. Residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheatley Harbour Restored</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wheatley Harbour, Ontario is once again a clean and healthy aquatic ecosystem, announced Dave Van Kesteren, MP for Chatham-Kent-Essex last week. Wheatley Harbour was designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern in 1985 pursuant to the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The major environmental concerns were historical sources of PCBs, contaminated sediments, high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$3.75M Invested in Water Quality Research</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2010/3-75m-invested-in-water-quality-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Threats and Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can we act to prevent invasive species and protect biodiversity in the Great Lakes? As part of our World Water Day series, Water Canada got scientific with Professor John Casselman of Queen’s University’s Biology Department. Water Canada: In terms of biodiversity, how has Lake Ontario changed in the past fifty years? What kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Water Quality on the Global Agenda</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2010/putting-water-quality-on-the-global-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like the idea of your great-grandchildren having access to clean, safe drinking water, grab your calendar and set up a recurring reminder for March 22. Today (and every March 22) is a particularly big day for two programs committed to generating awareness about the need to protect the world’s water resources. Not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Stormwater Management</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2009/sustainable-stormwater-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stormwater management has become an increasingly challenging issue for urban communities. In many cases, rainwater can no longer follow its natural patterns, which increases the volumes of runoff and its associated problems. In a natural environment, runoff is minimized since rainfall for the most part is dealt with naturally through infiltration, evaporation or plant transpiration. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioteQ Signs Contract for Seasonal Whitehorse Plant</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2009/bioteq-signs-contract-for-seasonal-whitehorse-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc. will design and build a water treatment plant in Whitehorse at the Minto copper mine owned by Minto Explorations Limited. BioteQ will provide process design, engineering and project management services on a fee basis. Minto Explorations is providing the capital and operating cost of the plant, which is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funds Announced for Lake Winnipeg Clean Up</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2009/funds-announced-for-lake-winnipeg-clean-up/</link>
		<comments>http://watercanada.net/2009/funds-announced-for-lake-winnipeg-clean-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morden Community Lead Environmental Action on Nutrient Elimination and Removal  project]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than $109,000 in federal funding will support the Morden Community Lead Environmental Action on Nutrient Elimination and Removal (CLEANER) project, an initiative that will ultimately contribute to cleaning up Lake Winnipeg and its watershed. “Through the combination of science, community action and environmental education, the CLEANER project will help reduce or even eliminate excess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CANTEST Wins Manitoba Contract</title>
		<link>http://watercanada.net/2009/cantest-wins-manitoba-contract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANTEST Ltd., an analytical and testing laboratory, has won a three-year contract with Manitoba Water Stewardship to provide microbiological testing of drinking water from all drinking water treatment plants in Manitoba. The testing will help Manitoba Water Stewardship, a department of the Government of Manitoba, monitor and improve drinking water quality across Manitoba as per [...]]]></description>
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