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		<title>Liberals Release Report on Water and Oil Sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development today released their report from the committee’s study of the impact of oilsands development on Canada’s freshwater. The study was launched over two and a half years ago on a motion from Lac-Saint-Louis MP Francis Scarpaleggia, chair of the National Liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RBC Announces Final 2010 Grant Recipients</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week RBC announced the last wave of its 2010 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Seven organizations from Canada, the United States and Trinidad &#38; Tobago will share over $1.2 million. RBC&#8217;s funding will support a range of projects from wetland and shoreline restoration to water quality monitoring and sharing of sustainable water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Abstains from UN Water Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. Presented by Bolivia and 33 other States, the resolution that would &#8220;entitle everyone to available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable water and sanitation&#8221; received 122 votes in favour with no votes against and 41 abstentions—including Canada. Long-time advocates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth Expected for UV Market: Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent ratification of legislation favouring ultraviolet (UV) disinfection methods—in addition to other variables—bodes well for the market, says Frost &#38; Sullivan. The company&#8217;s new analysis, titled Global Ultraviolet Water and Wastewater Disinfection Systems Market, finds that the market earned revenues of US$388.3 million in 2008, and estimates this to reach US$629.8 million in 2015. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioteQ to Build New Water Treatment Plant in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc., a company that treats industrial wastewater, will construct a third water treatment plant in China, in joint venture with Jiangxi Copper Company. The project will enable the mine site to maximize resource recovery and produce clean water. The design report for the plant, announced in March 2010, has been approved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FilterBoxx Signs Agreement with GE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the importance of finding efficient and economical ways to recover heavy oil from the oil sands regions, GE and Calgary-based FilterBoxx Water &#38; Environmental Corp. have teamed up to develop water treatment solutions. GE and FilterBoxx recently signed an agreement to develop integrated de-oiling and water treatment options for Alberta’s oil sands. Specifically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H2O Innovation Wins $4.5M in Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quebec City-based H2O Innovation Inc., a water treatment solutions company, has been awarded new contracts totaling $4.5 million. These contracts will see the company provide custom-built water treatment systems for municipal and industrial end-users, in the United States and Canada and, to a lesser extent, in Egypt. As part of the contracts announced today, H2O [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Awards US$4M Contract to Insituform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insituform Technologies, Inc. has received a contract award for US$4 million to rehabilitate over 11,000 feet of drinking water pipelines in Victoria, British Columbia. Work on this project, which includes 12-inch and 20-inch diameter pipelines, is expected to be completed by early 2011. In other news, Insituform has opened a new office in Montreal to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Lakes, Wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great Lakes region of Ontario and Quebec, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. Down the Drain: Water Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin outlines how much water could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Scarcity Boosts Prospects for Reuse: Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increased concerns regarding water scarcity and water use restrictions are main drivers for growth in the North American industrial and municipal water reuse markets, says a new report from Frost &#38; Sullivan. Current technological advancements make water reuse applications viable options for both municipal and industrial end users to circumvent these bottlenecks. In recent years, [...]]]></description>
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