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Compare and contrast: World Water Day 2024

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

Stockholm Environment Institute

A collection of articles focused on water projects around the world. Click here to continue reading

Guelph advocacy group calls on province to curb road salt pollution for World Water Day

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

CBC

Ontario Salt Pollution Coalition is sounding the alarm on the damage done by road salt for World Water Day, and is calling on the province to do more to mitigate the risk of contamination to groundwater, rivers and lakes, as well as to drinking water. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: UN World Water Development Report 2024

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

UN Water

“Water for prosperity and peace”, UN Water’s annual Water Day publication has been released. The report highlights the wider significance of water for our lives and livelihoods. It explores water’s capacity to unite people and serve as a tool for peace, sustainable development, climate action and regional integration. Click here to continue reading

Statement by the Prime Minister on World Water Day

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

Prime Minister of Canada

A brief statement by Prime Minister Trudeau on World Water Day. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024
The Conversation – Canada
Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.
Eight safe and just boundaries for five domains (climate, biosphere, water, nutrients and aerosols) have been identified beyond which there is significant harm to humans and nature and the risk of crossing tipping points increases. Humans have already crossed the safe and just Earth System Boundaries for water. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: World Water Day: Shocking stories from the frontlines of the worldwide water crisis

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

EuroNews Green

From dried-up rivers to poisoned water, people around the world are struggling to meet a basic need. This World Water Day, journalists from around the world interviewed some of the people struggling to get fresh water. Click here to continue reading

Water woes in southern Alberta could spell disaster for aquatic ecosystems, and the people who rely on them

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

The Conversation – Canada

Freshwater will be an increasingly scarce resource as we head into spring and summer in Western Canada with implications for the livelihoods and economic prosperity of humans, and non-humans alike, in southern Alberta and the downstream Prairie provinces. Click here to continue reading

‘Growing concern’: Alarm sounded over water situation

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

Lethbridge Herald

A director with the Livingstone Landowners Group is sounding the alarm on how dire the situation is in his community with water restrictions in hopes people across southern Alberta will take steps to conserve water. Click here to continue reading

All water bodies closed in 2 B.C. national parks due to parasite

PUBLISHED: 22 March 2024      Last Edited: 22 March 2024

CBC

Parks Canada is closing all bodies of water in British Columbia’s Kootenay and Yoho national parks, and restricting watercraft in Alberta’s Waterton Lakes National Park, in an effort to slow the spread of invasive species. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Fairy circles: Plant water stress causes Namibia’s gaps in grass

PUBLISHED: 21 March 2024      Last Edited: 21 March 2024

Science Daily

Namibia’s legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert.Their results show that the grass withers due to a lack of water inside the fairy circle. The topsoil, comprised of the top 10 to 12 centimeters of the soil, acts as a kind of ‘death zone’ in which fresh grass cannot survive for long. Click here to continue reading

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