March 22, 2012: Graduate Research Fair and Water Celebration
January 20, 2012 - 8:53 am
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Items tagged: World Water Day
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Changing Lives in Kechene
March 22, 2011 - 7:22 am
As part of our Canada Water Week series, culminating in today’s World Water Day celebrations, we learned about the African Medical and Research Foundation’s (AMREF’s) work bringing water and sanitation to Kechene, Ethiopia—with the help of the community. Just a few short years ago, communities...
Categories: Features
Canada Water Week: What’s All the Fuss About?
March 14, 2011 - 6:12 am
Tim Morris launches our Canada Water Week series. Watch all week for more articles on events and organizations across Canada! Why am I so excited about Canada Water Week? Well, when we first conceived of bringing people together for the inaugural Canada Water Week, we had no idea it would generate...
Categories: Features
Water Karma
January 13, 2011 - 4:10 pm
Water Canada's publisher loves news clippings. Every once in awhile, he'll drop into the editorial department with a stack he's saved over the past few months and dole out these tidbits to inspire (or enrage) the editorial staff. Either way, they make us think. One of the more interesting clippings...
Categories: Blog
March 22, 2011: World Water Day
January 10, 2011 - 10:48 am
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Threats and Consequences
March 22, 2010 - 11:51 am
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...
Categories: Features
Explaining Treatment
March 21, 2010 - 8:31 am
Water Canada: Hi, Brian. What’s your role at Trojan? Brian Petri: I have a mandate to lead our disinfection research program. Our lab group tries to understand how amenable to treatment various pathogens are. We want to reduce the number of pathogens that concern us. WC: What do you plan to speak...
Categories: Features
Putting Water Quality on the Global Agenda
March 21, 2010 - 7:30 am
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...
Categories: Features
Water for Life
March 19, 2010 - 12:35 pm
Back in 2006, Canadian photographer Peter Bregg accompanied Margaret Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau on their trip to support clean water projects in Ethiopia. WaterCan, a Canadian organization that helps the world’s poorest people gain access to clean water, basic sanitation and hygiene...
Categories: Features
EPCOR Supports Decade of Action
March 19, 2010 - 10:54 am
As part of its effort to increase the public's understanding of water scarcity issues in Canada, EPCOR Utilities Inc. is supporting the United Nations' Water for Life program. For the next three years, the Canadian arm of the program will be called the EPCOR Chair in support of the United Nations'...
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