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 Items tagged: waterItems Found: 168Cross-Canada Tour Reveals National Concern About WaterMay 23, 2012 - 4:48 pm This week, the Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) released Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on our Water Future, highlighting a 16-city cross-Canada tour conducted by Canmore-based Bob Sandford, co-chair of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW). Sandford released the report today... The 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 Researchers Discover Resistance in Ontario FreshwaterApril 26, 2012 - 12:42 pm McMaster University researchers have discovered that floc--“goolike” substances that occur suspended in water and that host large communities of bacteria--also contain high levels of antibiotic resistance. “This has important public health implications because the more antibiotic resistance... Charlottetown Begins $18M Sewer Separation ProjectApril 25, 2012 - 11:53 am This month, the City of Charlottetown awarded the consulting engineering services portion of the Spring Park Combined Sewer Separation Project to the Charlottetown Office of Genivar Inc. The Spring Park Combined Sewer Separation Project is part of the city's continuing efforts to resolve the operational... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News New Publication Outlines Current Water "Stress Points" in Western CanadaMarch 29, 2012 - 8:26 am A new publication released by the Canada West Foundation outlines a series of water challenges, or “stress points,” emerging in western Canada. Stress Points: An Overview of Water and Economic Growth in Western Canada highlights some of the current water challenges and their potential impact... Categories: News, Western Canada Nova Scotia Makes Progress on Water for Life StrategyMarch 28, 2012 - 8:27 am A progress report released on March 23 highlights achievements of the first year of Nova Scotia's water resource management strategy, called Water for Life, which was released in December 2010. "Nova Scotians understand the importance of clean water to our health, our environment and our economy,"... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News Two Weeks of BuzzMarch 18, 2012 - 3:55 pm Playing a bit of catch up after two weeks on the road in western Canada, but wanted to quickly share some of the big buzz topics that we'll be covering in more depth in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! S-8 "We will not accept any circumstances where First Nations are set up to fail," said National... Categories: Blog Feds and Alberta Release Oil Sands Monitoring PlanFebruary 7, 2012 - 2:37 pm The federal government and Alberta unveiled the long-awaited Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring in Edmonton last Friday. Spurred by University of Alberta researchers Erin Kelly and David Schindler, the governments established an independent review panel in 2010 and in... Categories: National, News, Western Canada Feds to Invest $78.7M in Monitoring InfrastructureJanuary 20, 2012 - 2:30 pm The Harper Government will invest $78.7 million over the next five years to strengthen weather monitoring infrastructure, Minister of Environment Peter Kent announced today. The infrastructure upgrades will strengthen core weather monitoring networks including the weather radar network. The upgrades... The Top 100: Water BreakdownJanuary 2, 2012 - 10:40 am Water and wastewater projects have a decent presence in the 2012 edition of ReNew Canada’s Top 100: Canada’s Biggest Infrastructure Projects, released this week. Seven projects (down from nine in 2011) accounted for $3.708 billion ($4.378 billion in 2011) of the list. Heavy hitting categories... |
