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Testing the waters: what we can all learn about protecting our Prairie lakes
CBC News
When the water in your lake is 100 years old and has few opportunities to replenish itself, you want to take steps to keep it clean. Here’s what advocates at Wabamun Lake have learned, and how that knowledge could help protect other Prairie lakes. Click here to continue reading
Important wetlands and forests in Essex County, ON now protected
Water Canada
More than 25 years ago, Orfeo Lucchese purchased a rural farm and woodlot property in Essex County, near Harrow, Ontario. With great effort and insightful vision, he transformed it into a vibrant forest, meadow and wetland sanctuary. Now, these restored ecosystems will be protected forever. Click here to continue reading
3D-printed ‘living material’ could clean up contaminated water
Science Daily
A ‘living material,’ made of a natural polymer combined with genetically engineered bacteria, could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants from water. Researchers developed their living material using a seaweed-based polymer and bacteria that have been programmed to produce an enzyme that transforms various organic pollutants into harmless compounds. Click here to continue reading
Compare and Contrast: Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria hit by fatal flash floods
The Guardian
At least 11 people have died in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria as flash floods from torrential rainstorms turned rivers into torrents, swept away bridges and inundated streets, homes and public buildings. Click here to continue reading
Prince Rupert council approves borrowing for infrastructure replacement
Water Canada
Prince Rupert is edging closer to having the funds needed for an ambitious plan to replace the most critical 26 km of our water and sewer infrastructure. Now that the deadline has passed for the Alternative Approval Process with 47, and 48 respondents (respectively for the two bylaws) of the over 1000 required to register their opposition to borrowing, Council passed final readings of two borrowing bylaws last night. Click here to continue reading
Nova Scotia seeks input on Protected Areas Strategy
Water Canada
Nova Scotians are invited to help shape the approach for protecting 20 per cent of the province’s land and water by 2030. The input will be used to develop the Nova Scotia Collaborative Protected Areas Strategy, which will outline how the Province will achieve its 2030 land and water conservation goal and identify next steps. Click here to continue reading
P.E.I. salmon streams get boost from new watershed project
CBC News
A watershed group on P.E.I. hopes it will be smoother swimming for salmon returning to spawn this fall, thanks to a new pilot project run in partnership with the Canadian Wildlife and the Atlantic Salmon federations. The Souris and Area Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation is leading the project, which builds on work that’s already been done in Western Canada while adapting it to the unique conditions in the province. Click here to continue reading
Water-quality risks linked more to social factors than money
Science Daily
When we determine which communities are more likely to get their water from contaminated supplies, median household income is not the best measure. That’s according to a recent study that found social factors — such as low population density, high housing vacancy, disability and race — can have a stronger influence than median household income on whether a community’s municipal water supply is more likely to have health-based water-quality violations. Click here to continue reading
Ontario mayor calls for coordinated action on coastal resilience from province, feds
CBC News
Tecumseh and other municipalities such as Lakeshore and Chatham-Kent have completed studies detailing the expensive efforts needed to protect people who have property along an eroding shoreline that’s being pounded by destructive storms. Click here to continue reading
World Water Week Participants Promote Clear Business Case for Nature-Based Solutions
UN Environment Programme
Drought is an increasingly urgent and systemic problem. More than a quarter of the global population live in countries facing extremely high water stress, exacerbated by climate change, with expected shocks to food and energy security, water availability and ecosystems. Click here to continue reading