Saturday, June 14, 2025
State of Emergency
“We must commit ourselves as a society to ensure that every child has access to safe, clean drinking water,” wrote Assembly of First Nations (AFN)…
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State of Emergency in Pikangikum
Chief Jonah Strang has declared a state of emergency for Pikangikum First Nation, a northwestern Ontario community with an on-reserve population of 2,400, no all-year…
Trendspotting
Anyone interested in the business of water in Canada will be looking to Ontario to see what, if any, effect the recently passed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act will have on the industry. With
Interview: Khoo Teng Chye
A densely populated island that relies heavily on rainwater, Singapore has for years imported nearly half of its supply from its neighbouring Malaysia. Two agreements,…
Bottle Ban for Nova Scotia?
With Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter’s recent promise that his government will ban bottled water in all provincial buildings that have drinkable tap water, the…
Nestlé Donates to Haiti Relief Efforts
Nestlé Waters North America (which includes Nestlé Waters Canada) has pledged to donate $1 million in bottled water products to support disaster relief efforts and…
Myths and Legends
Myth #1: Water is a public good. Water is essential to life. Therefore, some argue, it should be considered public. Food is also essential to…
BPA Levels Safe: Health Canada
Health Canada testing has detected bisphenol A (BPA) in some 18.5-litre polycarbonate bottles of drinking water, but it says the levels are low and pose…
Green Party Calls for Fewer Bottles
Canada’s Green Party has voiced its opinion on bottled water by asking the federal government to avoid its purchase wherever possible, citing environmental and economic…
AMERICANA: Day One
Day One passed with much talk of the economy and how it’s affecting environmental businesses. Not surprisingly, most of the non-technical sessions had a money…
Stock the Shelves
According to the United Nations, the current slump in the world’s biggest economies will shrink global output by 0.4 per cent in 2009 — the worst…
Niagara Falls Bans the Bottle
Niagara Falls city council has voted unanimously to phase out the sale of bottled water in public spaces. Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to…
CUPE Wants NS to ‘Ditch the Bottle’
A broad-based coalition of organizations in Nova Scotia has come together to convince municipalities and school boards that the sale and provision of bottled water…
Health Canada: Bisphenol A on Toxic Substances List
Canada is taking steps to prevent importation, sale and advertising of polycarbonate baby bottled containing bisphenol A (BPA). While BPA is not an issue for…
The Banning of the Bottle
On August 19, London, Ont. became the first Canadian municipality to eliminate the purchase and sale of single-use bottled water at a number of city-owned…
25 Cent Solutions: Canadian Springs
Canadian Springs, a Canadian supplier of large format bottled water products, has announced that it will move to introduce a bottle deposit program for its…
U.S. House Approves Great Lakes Compact: AP
The House ratified a compact Tuesday to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water,…
‘Blue Gold’ Report: MEI
Though some people fear harmful exploitation or even the drying up of water resources, Marcel Boyer, the author of a research paper published by the…
New GM for NSF’s Beverage Quality Program
Christopher Dunn, a 30-year veteran of the beverage industry, is now the general manager of NSF International’s Beverage Quality Program. The beverage quality program tests,…
Remarkable Natural Filtration
After oxygen, water is our most important molecule — the source of all life on Earth and the key to all great civilizations. But clean…
IBWA and ABA Combine Tradeshows for 2008
The American Beverage Association (ABA) and the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) announced today their intention to combine their two tradeshows in 2008. InterBev 2008…