Friday, April 18, 2025
Planting Forests Permanently Reduces Regional Water Availability: Study
River flow is reduced in areas where forests have been planted and does not recover over time, according to a new study. Rivers in some regions…
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Transport Canada Provides Additional Safeguards to 25 Rivers
Twenty-five wild and free-flowing rivers and Canadian Heritage Rivers will receive additional oversight under the Canadian Navigable Waters Act. The rivers have officially been added…
Stockholm Water Prize Awarded to Dr. Jackie King
Dr. Jackie King received the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize on August 28, 2019 for her contributions to global river management. King has advanced the scientific…
Canada Home to Vast Majority of North America’s Remaining Longest and Free-Flowing Rivers
Just over one-third (37 per cent) of the world’s 246 longest rivers remain free-flowing, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature. Of those found in…
National Assessment of Canada’s Wildest Rivers
Canada’s history, culture, and patterns of human development are a reflection of the nation’s rivers. Although Canada once had an abundance of wild, large, and…
Laurier Takes a Lead in Canadian Rivers Institute
The CRI is a leader in applied aquatic science that not only works on issues affecting rivers and estuaries around the world, it works to train the coming generation of aquatic scientists. At Laurier, MacLatchy has three CRI-affiliated graduate scientists working with her.
Toronto Region Conservation Authority Launches ‘A City of Rivers’ Interactive Map Tool
More than 60 years ago, Hurricane Hazel devastated Toronto and area. Lives were lost, properties destroyed, and history was written. Now, Toronto and Region Conservation…
WWF Urges Government to Protect Athabasca
Today, WWF-Canada released Securing Environmental Flows in the Athabasca River, a report that urges government agencies to demonstrate their commitment to protecting Alberta’s lower Athabasca…
Feds Fund Conservation Portal
The federal government is providing close to $35,000 from the Rideau Canal Resource Conservation funding to the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW) to complete the…
Water Footprints
Safe, reliable freshwater—and healthy, productive freshwater ecosystems—are foundations for a strong economy and sustainable communities. But the collective impacts of producing more food and fuel…
Manitoba Declares War on Phosphorus
Manitoba is implementing new rules for livestock waste management in response to recommendations made by the Clean Environment Commission (CEC) and the auditor general, Conservation…
WWF Releases Rivers at Risk Report
Our friends over at WWF-Canada have released a new report, Canada’s Rivers at Risk: Environmental Flows and Canada’s Freshwater Future (pdf here). The report claims…
Global Water Roundtable Created: Stockholm
A new initiative launched during World Water Week in Stockholm will establish global standards for water stewardship, with the goal of addressing the global threat…
Canada Invests $4.5M in UN Water Program
On the eve of World Water Day, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice announced that Canada will invest $2.5 million over five years to support…