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 [...]
Posted on 05 July 2010
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 [...]
Posted on 30 June 2010
The University of Guelph has opened the first phase of a new centre to help ensure safe and sustainable groundwater supplies that is intended to become one of the most advanced bedrock aquifer research [...]
Posted on 22 June 2010
The City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a city that borders Lake Superior, is the recipient for the Most Innovative Conservation Method based on its development of water bars to promote more use of municipal [...]
Posted on 19 May 2010
A day after Ontario Minister of the Environment John Gerretsen announced some details of the province's proposed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, the feedback has started rolling in. "Wise [...]
Posted on 18 May 2010
"We want Ontario to provide the solutions the world is calling for," said Ontario's Minister of Environment, John Gerretsen, today. Quietly and without much advance notice, the provincial government [...]
Posted on 29 April 2010
The City of Toronto officially kicked off its Water Meter Program yesterday with the installation of the first automated water meter in a residential home under the new program. This mandatory initiative [...]
Posted on 27 April 2010
Nineteen influential environmental scientists from Germany will participate in a water protection research seminar Thursday as part of a four-day visit to the University of Waterloo. The newly [...]
Posted on 22 April 2010
Ontario is proposing to require that all toilets sold in the province use no more than six litres of water per flush. The proposed measure would promote conservation and lower household bills for Ontario [...]
Posted on 19 April 2010
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 [...]
Posted on 14 April 2010
A coalition of environmental, industry, labour and community organizations as well as individual Ontarians launched a public campaign today to advocate that the provincial government includes a strong [...]