Search Results for Lake Erie

A Resilient Province

For years, Manitoba has battled water. Cultivating life on a flood plain has meant makeshift dams and dikes, and eventually multi-million infrastructure projects such as…

Getting Creative with the Law

We’re big fans of creative sentences—it’s no surprise, since Dianne helped to develop them 30 years ago. They flow from three basic observations about fines,…

The Big Leap

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment (MOE) developed the York Durham Sewage System (YDSS) to convey sewage from York Region…

A Bitter Pill

If the brook trout swimming in Dr. Sébastien Sauvé’s laboratory tanks at the City of Montreal wastewater treatment plant smiled while his team probed their…

Time to Backtrack

Growing up near Elliot Lake, Ontario, Lorraine Rekmans remembers picking berries near Elliot Lake. A band member of Serpent River First Nation, Rekman’s maternal grandparents…

How-To Strategies

Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate change…

Drinking Water Success in Ontario

Ontario continues to be a North American leader in providing clean, safe, and reliable drinking water to Ontarians, reads a press release from the Minister…

European State of Mind

Looking at a map of Canada’s many lakes and rivers may give the impression of a secure water future, but it’s a false sense of…

Web Sense

The concept of transparency in government isn’t a new thing, but theory is always easier than practice. Just think of how the term “public consultation”…

Pond, Tunnel and Pipe

It wasn’t a happy day back in 1987 when the International Joint Commission (IJC) listed Toronto’s waterfront as one of 43 Areas of Concern in…

Going Solo

Roman aqueducts and sewers provide a powerful emblem of the antiquity of urban water infrastructure—centralized approaches to water and wastewater service provision may seem similarly…

Operator Assistance

First Nations drinking water has had a history of infamy in Canada. In comparison to drinking water off-reserve, the quality of on-reserve water is largely…

Threats and Consequences

How can we act to prevent invasive species and protect biodiversity in the Great Lakes? As part of our World Water Day series, Water Canada…

Wonky Policy

Canadians regard fresh water as the country’s most important natural resource—even over oil and gas and forestry, according to a recent Nanos-Policy Options public survey.…