Tag: water quality
N.B. Environmental Trust Fund Supports Community-Based Water Projects
New Brunswick’s Environmental Trust Fund (ETF) will invest about $8.4 million in environmental projects through 2018 and 2019. This includes 227 community-based environmental initiatives...
Fertilizer Canada On Track to Reach its Sustainability Goals by 2020
Farmers make up one-third of the global population. Together, they have the opportunity to play a major role in reducing impacts on the environment...
CWQA Announces a New Executive Director
The Canadian Water Quality Association has announced that Anne Baliva will be the new executive director. Baliva served as program manager of the Canadian Water...
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...
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...
Swim Guide Upgrades its App and Moves Open Data Forward
Swim Drink Fish Canada has launched a third version of its beach and water quality app, Swim Guide 3.3, and continues to work towards...
Canadian Agricultural Partnership Commits $690M Climate and Water Sustainability
Yesterday, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister, Lawrence MacAulay, announced six federal programs under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, the largest of which invests in the sector's climate and...
Alta. Institutes Wetland Protection Measures for Ring Road Project
The Alberta government is instituting measures to protect Beaver Pond and requiring additional wetland monitoring related to the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring...
Has Road Salt Run its Course?
Marshes, streams and lakes lie alongside many of the roads and highways that zigzag across North America. Plants and animals inhabit these water bodies...
Acceptable Lead Concentration in Water Systems at Prince George Public Facilities
The City of Prince George, British Columbia has conducted a review of drinking water quality at civic facilities and found it to be safe...
