Sunday, July 27, 2025
IJC Welcomes New Members to its GLWQA Advisory Boards
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has appointed eight new members from Canada and the United States to its Great Lakes Water Quality and Great Lakes…
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Predictive Model Forecasts Rainfall to Support Irrigation Decisions
A predictive model that combines information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions, and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how…
CEC Receives Submission on Cross Border Water Pollution in Lake Memphremagog
Memphremagog Conservation Inc. has filed a submission with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Secretariat. The submission asserts that Canada and the United States are not effectively…
Blue Accounting Releases Comprehensive Database of Coastal Wetlands Projects in the Great Lakes Basin
Blue Accounting has released a comprehensive database of coastal wetlands protection, restoration, and enhancement projects in the Great Lakes Basin. Using the database, decision-makers and…
Diving into Water Treatment Strategies for Swimming Pools
With summer in full swing, many people are cooling off in swimming pools. However, some of the substances that are made when chlorine in the…
CDP Introduces Global Index of Top-Ranking Environmental Stocks
CDP has introduced two new indices that select stocks based on the work companies are doing to tackle issues related to water security, climate change,…
Swim Drink Fish Opens New Citizen Science Water Monitoring Hubs
Three citizen science water quality monitoring hubs are now testing the water and sharing water quality results with swimmers and boaters on the Great Lakes…
Study Examines Why Some Cities Turn Off Pipes at Night
For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent systems” that turn on and off at various times of the…
New Report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics
Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region have released a new report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics. “We are very…
Risk Transfer can Help Utilities Manage Costs of Volatile Weather: Report
A new report highlights how water utilities can use weather risk transfer (WRT) contracts to mitigate the costs of floods, droughts, and fluctuations in water supply…
Netherlands, China Partner for New Action on Climate Crisis
China and the Netherlands have announced a new initiative to accelerate action to make China and the region more resilient to the reality of the…
Benefits to Water Quality by Planting Trees on Degraded Agricultural Land
In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Arturo Keller, a professor of environmental biogeochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, presented a hard link between…
UN: Simple & Hi-Tech solutions Needed to Address Desertification, Drought
On June 17th, World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, José Graziano da Silva, director-general, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), stressed…
IJC Launches Consultations to Hear from Public about Great Lakes Health
The International Joint Commission (IJC) is hosting public consultations this summer and fall to hear the public’s perspectives on how the Great Lakes are faring…
Swedish Researchers Search for By-products in Drinking Water
Researchers at Linköping University have gained insights into the types of by-products that are found in drinking water based on testing that was undertaken at…
Minister Rod Phillips Releases Statement on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors’ and Premiers’ Leadership Summit
Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks Rod Phillips issued the following statement on June 16, 2019 at the conclusion of the Great Lakes St.…
Canada and U.S. Release Progress Report on GLWQA Commitments
A new report that documents the progress made by Canada and United States between 2017 and 2019 in meeting commitments under the Great Lakes Water…
Downpours More Frequent with Global Warming, According to Study
The frequency of heavy downpours has increased across the globe over the past 50 years, according to research led by the Global Institute for Water…
Walter Marlowe Joins WEF as Executive Director
Walter Marlowe will join the Water Environment Federation (WEF) as its new executive director on September 9, 2019. Marlowe brings extensive, high level experience in…
Commission Highlights Bilateral Efforts to Protect Salish Sea
On World Oceans Day, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) released three short films highlighting its recent efforts to reduce marine litter in two border…
Great Lakes Mayors Sign Pact to Stop Asian Carp
As part of the 16th Annual Conference of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Cities Initiative (GLSLCI), held June 5-7 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, US…
New Partnership to Strengthen Water Resource Management
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Global Water Partnership (GWP) are increasing their long-standing cooperation to strengthen water resource management. This is at a time…
Calgary-based International Clean Water Charity Receives $12 Million Boost
The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) announced that it has received two significant gifts from David O’Brien and Geoffrey Cumming. The gifts…
XPV Water Partners Invests in Metron-Farnier
XPV Water Partners announced that it has invested in Metron-Farnier, which offers a line of residential and commercial water meters augmented with smart meter technologies.…