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- May 22-24, 2012: Living Lakes Canada and Red Zone III Community Gathering
- May 23-26, 2012: CanWell: Canadian Groundwater Symposium
- May 24, 2012: Advancing Water Conservation: Leading Edge Tools & Technologies
- May 29, 2012: Webinar: Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on Our Water Future
- June 1-4, 2012: Federation of Canadian Municipalities: 2012 Annual Conference and Expo
- June 4, 2012: Water and Lessons Learned: Have we quenched our thirst?
- June 5-8, 2012: Earth, Wind and Water – Elements of Life: 1st Joint CWRA / CGU National Conference
- June 5-7, 2012: IBM & WCIT 2012 World Tech Jam
- June 13–15, 2012: Membrane Filtration Technology: Fundamentals, Design and Applications
- June 14, 2012: Nutrients Removal in Ontario WWTPs: Future Challenges & Options
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Re: Smelly cities—looks like I spoke too soon.
Just days after I posted about Halifax's stinky sewage dilemma, Toronto's Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) went on strike, causing interruptions to several City services, including city-run daycare centres, ferry services and parks and recreation programs—not to mention garbage collection.
Oh, and water and sewer services.
The City's contingency plan assures residents that water supply and sewage treatment systems will continue to function within established safety and quality standards [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2009
Written by Elizabeth Hendriks
Over the weekend of June 19, Waterlution - A Water Learning Experience hosted the third Alberta residential workshop for 2009. The workshop, hosted at Waterton Lakes National Park, focused discussion and tours around water and agricultural issues found in Southern Alberta.
From the headwaters of the foot hills to the irrigated lands beyond the dams, there's a long history in Southern Alberta which has built a rich and diverse agricultural and ranching culture. The dominance of agriculture and water supply challenges has been shaped by more than a century [...]
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Poor Halifax. Since its brand-new, $54-million sewage treatment plant failed on January 14, about 82 million litres of raw sewage per day has flowed directly into Halifax harbour—and, along with the much-publicized "floatables" problem, the smell of sewer gas is growing worse.
The smell is so terrible, in fact, that this week municipal officials were forced to install carbon filters and large deodorant blocks to deal with the stench.
The problem may even affect tourism. CBC Nova Scotia has started a discussion about whether the sewage leaks will [...]
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As the Boundary Waters Treaty celebrates its hundredth anniversary with a week of celebrations in Niagara Falls, we've reported on expert groups Great Lakes United and the newly-formed Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW—formerly Gordon Water Group) using the occasion to voice their concerns about the "outdated" Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the International Joint Commission (IJC), respectively.
Amidst the controversy, Canada Post has released this Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 commemorative stamp (image via Canada Post). Designed by [...]
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How does remuneration for water professionals stack up against other "green collar" professions?
On May 11, ECO Canada released Canada's first Compensation Report specifically for 16 key occupations in the environmental sector.
If the report is similar to ECO Canada's last survey on environmental employment in 2007, it'll be difficult for those of us in the water sector to determine if we are being paid fairly in relation to professionals in other "green collar" sectors such as remediation, bioenergy, or air pollution control. The 2007 survey, which [...]
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"Quebec has a unique status at the international level with regard to its water," said Jean Landry, president of Quebec’s regroupement of watershed organizations (ROBVQ), at the opening of the International Forum on Integrated Water Management yesterday at the Université de Sherbrooke.
Indeed it does. Introduced this year, the province's Bill 27 model has the potential to be adopted by several countries, says Landry.
Bill 27 (passed in principle on April 8 and, from what I gather, now in the report stage) deems that both surface water and groundwater [...]
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If Chicken Little told you the sky was falling, you'd likely take no heed to the warning. However, if a group of accredited professors tell you that Canada's groundwater supplies are threatened, you probably should listen.
Sustainable Management on Groundwater in Canada, a report (PDF here) released today by the Council of Canadian Academies, a national science advisory body, warns that there are increasing threats to Canada's groundwater supplies.
With approximately one third of Canada's 30 million people obtaining drinking water from beneath the ground [...]
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The Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA) held its 9th annual Environment Industry Day (EID) on April 2009 at Queen's Park and Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto. The theme of the event, Open for (Green) Business, emphasized the fact that the environmental industry in Ontario employs more than 60,000 people.
The event showcases the importance of Ontario’s environment industry to members of provincial parliament, ministers and government staff. The day is broken up into three portions. In the morning, small teams hold informal meetings [...]
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Last April, a report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal showed there were 1,766 boil-water advisories in effect across the country. The report identified Ontario as the worst-hit area, with 679 advisories; B.C. followed with 530.
As of this past weekend, approximately 1,200 homes in the Township of Wainfleet, Ontario have been under a boil water advisory for three years.
This morning, I spoke with Bill Hunter, manager of environmental health for Niagara Region Public Health. "It's unusual, at least in my experience. This boil water advisory [...]
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Is there a market for eye-catching water infrastructure?
Prior to my current employment with CWT, I worked with an environmental services company that listed composting and soil remediation among its specialties. During my time there, the City of Calgary issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design-build of a composting facility. One section of the RFP requested creative ideas that the City could consider, but it was not a part of the core proposal.
For the creative component, I suggested that our company contract Frank Gehry to design the building [...]
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