Tuesday, July 1, 2025
City of Thunder Bay Releases Annual Report on Drinking Water Quality
The City of Thunder Bay, Ontario has released its 2018 Drinking Water Quality Annual Report. This report details water quality results from January 1 to…
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Ontario’s Annual Report on Drinking Water Quality 2017–18
At the end of November, Ontario’s Acting Chief Drinking Water Inspector, Mili New, released the province’s annual report on drinking water quality for 2017–2018. The…
Fraser Institute Reports Canadian Water Quality Generally Very Good
A study from the Fraser Institute reports that Canada’s freshwater supply and water quality is generally very good. “Canadians are rightly sensitive about the country’s…
Swim Guide Releases Open Data Standard for Recreational Water Quality
Ontario’s Swim Guide, a Swim Drink Fish initiative, has announced the release of its open data standard for the automated exchange of recreational water quality…
U.S. Economists Find Watershed Groups Directly Impact Water Quality, Health
Economists from Oregon State University have found that in the United States, watershed groups have had a direct, positive impact on their local water quality.…
Land Acquisition Helps Protect Water Quality in Comox Lake
The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) Board has completed a land acquisition initiative that will help protect water quality in Comox Lake. An 18-hectare parcel…
Ducks Unlimited Canada Works with Municipality to Improve Water Quality
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has worked with Melbourne, Ontario to implement improved water quality management through wetlands to hold and filter water from the surrounding…
New Era of Water Quality Data with Blockchain Integrated DataStream
Yesterday, The Gordon Foundation, World Wildlife Fund Canada, the Atlantic Water Network, and Royal Bank of Canada presented the blockchain integrated Atlantic DataStream, a major…
Global Study Assesses Water Quality Using Drone-based Technologies
Experts are testing drones equipped with sensor technologies to enhance the monitoring of water worldwide as part of the $8.5 billion MONOCLE project funded by…
Research Aims to Understand Impacts of Forest Fires on Water Quality
North American forest fires have achieved unprecedented scale in 2018. New research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Strategic…
Sewage Discharge in Maine Prompts NB Water Quality Advisory
In response to a sewage discharge in the state of Maine, New Brunswick’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Department of…
Soil and Groundwater Quality Guidelines Available for Public Comment
Documents published by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment(CCME) regarding the Canadian Soil and Groundwater Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Environmental and…
N.B. Funds Flood Risk Action Plans and Water Quality Improvement
New Brunswick has made available $770,000 under the Environmental Trust Fund for 27 projects in the Acadia Peninsula region in 2018–19, including for flood risk…
York Region Outperforms Fellow GTA Jurisdictions in Water Quality
Ontario’s York Region has posted another year of successful drinking water quality, having 99.93 per cent of water quality tests complying with provincial water quality…
Thunder Bay, Ont. Releases Annual Report on Drinking Water Quality
The City of Thunder Bay has released its 2017 Drinking Water Quality Annual Report, meeting or exceeding all provincially mandated parameters for drinking water quality.…
Mudsnails Provide Water Quality Indicators
A tiny snail could be a big help to researchers measuring water quality along the U.S. and Canadian Atlantic coast. Eastern mudsnails live in coastal…
Assessment of Progress on Canada-US Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
In its First Triennial Assessment of Progress under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the International Joint Commission (IJC) has called on Canada and…
CCME Water Quality Index Releases New App
The Canadian Council of Environment Ministers (CCME) has released the Water Quality Index 2.0 application and CCME Water Quality Index User’s Manual 2017 Update, replacing the Water Quality Index 1.2 published…
Research on HABS and Lake Erie Water Quality
Water quality conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose health risks for Ohioans in coastal communities that use the lake as their drinking water source.…
Ottawa Council Receives Drinking Water Quality Report
Ottawa continues to produce and deliver some of the highest quality and safest drinking water in the world, according to a report received by the Environment and…
Chiefs Express Concern Over Water Quality at Potlotek First Nation
Chiefs in Atlantic Canada are expressing frustration and concern over Canada’s lack of action to address hazardous water quality in Potlotek First Nation. It’s been…
Influence of Stagnation and Temperature on Drinking Water Quality
A group of Dutch researchers has completed a study on the plumbing between the water meter and consumer’s taps to determine whether stagnation and temperature…
N.B. Continues to Improve Water Quality & Infrastructure
On Friday, New Brunswick provided details on water quality related projects, including infrastructure upgrades and wetland assessments. After preliminary work, two projects upgrading wastewater infrastructure…
Vancouver Provides Free Waste Removal to Improve Water Quality
The City of Vancouver and the Park Board have launched a free mobile pump-out service in False Creek to increase access to sewage disposal facilities…