Friday, May 23, 2025
Nestlé Sells Pure Life Bottled Water Business to Ice River Springs
Nestlé Canada Inc. has announced an agreement to sell its Nestlé Pure Life bottled water business to Ice River Springs. The sale is contingent on…
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Poll: Ontario Bottled Water Policy and Public Opinion at Odds
A new poll of 1,500 Ontario residents has revealed discrepancies between the provincial government’s public policies when it comes to the bottled water industry and…
Prince Edward Island Places Temporary Ban on Bottled Water
The government of Prince Edward Island has placed a temporary moratorium on bottled water production until its new Water Act is in place. The order…
Canadian Bottled Water Association Responds to Ontario’s Moratorium
The Canadian Bottled Water Association has issued a response to the Ontario government’s two-year moratorium on new or expanded water takings from groundwater by bottling…
Ban on Plastic-Bottled Water May Be In Store for Montreal
Banning plastic-bottled water may be the next item on Montreal’s environmental to-do list. According to a report by The Canadian Press, Mayor Denise Coderre has…
The Problems We’re Not Solving By Banning Bottled Water
Earlier this year, researchers released a study examining the University of Vermont’s precedent-setting bottled water ban established in 2003. The results: an 8 per cent…
Canadians Celebrate Bottled Water Free Day
Canada and several other countries marked the second Bottled Water Free Day on March 10. “Canadians are rejecting the privatization of public water resources and…
N.S. Restricts Bottled Water Use
Nova Scotia’s government has made good on a promise made by its premier, Darrell Dexter, last month. The Province has eliminated the purchase and use…
Bottled Water Back in the News
This week Ontario NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) submitted a new Private Members Bill—Bottled Water Spending Act, 2009—to restrict government spending on bottled water. If…
Murky Waters Exposes Bottled Water Recalls
A new report released today by the Polaris Institute discusses the current state of federal bottled water regulations in Canada and calls it inadequate. The…
U of W Implements Campus-Wide Bottled Water Ban
Bottled water bans have hit schools. The University of Winnipeg (U of W) announced today that it will become the first university in Canada to…
FCM Encourages Reduced Bottled Water Use
The Federal of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is encouraging local governments to reduce the use of bottled water in their own facilities where other options are…
FCM to Vote: Phase Out Bottled Water?
The Council of Canadians is encouraging the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to vote in favour of a resolution that would call for all municipalities…
Groups Challenge Nestlé’s Bottled Water “Greenwashing”
As Toronto City Council gathered yesterday to consider passing a city-wide ban on bottled water, a new coalition challenged advertising claims made by Nestlé Waters…
The Future of Bottled Water is Unclear
California’s Calistoga Beverage Co. (parent company is Nestlé Waters North America) has cut 78 per cent of its workforce, citing a “softening in demand for…
School Board Seeks Bottled Water Alternatives: Orangeville Citizen
Municipalities aren’t the only bodies considering bottled water bans: now schools are in on the action. The Orangeville Citizen reports that the Upper Grand District…
London Votes to Ban Bottled Water
Last night London, Ont. city councillors voted in favour of banning the sale of bottled water in municipal buildings. The phased-in ban will take effect…
2007 U.S. Bottled Water Sales Increase
Sales and consumption of bottled water in the U.S. continues to rise, according to statistics released by the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and Beverage…
World Water Day: Where Bottled Water Fits In
In honour of World Water Day on March 22, the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is reminding consumers that bottled water is a healthy beverage,…
York Region achieves perfect water quality scores for 2024
York Regional Council received the 2024 Drinking Water Systems Memo sharing The Regional Municipality of York scored 100% in Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks drinking…
Zhiibaahaasing First Nation celebrates groundbreaking of new water treatment plant and distribution system upgrades
Zhiibaahaasing First Nation Chief Irene Sagon Kells and the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services, are excited to mark the official groundbreaking of the…
Meet the researcher who thinks about water so you don’t have to
The average Canadian household uses 223 litres of water every day. Drinking, cooking, bathing, washing—it all adds up. For the more than 200,000 Halifax residents…
Marten Falls First Nation declares state of emergency due to wastewater plant breakdown
Marten Falls First Nation is declaring a state of emergency due to an operational failure of the First Nation’s aging Wastewater system. There is immediate and…
Water activist Maude Barlow to be honoured at Brock’s Spring Convocation
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – When Brock University’s newest graduates gather to mark their accomplishments next month, they’ll be ushered into this new chapter of their…