Tag: water quality
Top Five Great Lakes Stories of 2020
1. Major Investments in Great Lakes Restoration Are Paying Off: Study
Canada and the United States have invested more than US$22.8 billion over the last...
International Joint Commission Recommends Improvements to Binational Cooperation
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has advice for Canada and the United States on how to improve binational cooperation for Great Lakes water quality...
New Water Well Improvement Program to Protect Groundwater Quality
Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) have partnered together to offer a Water Well Improvement Program. The program...
Government of Canada Invests in Priority Ecosystems in Atlantic Canada
The Government of Canada will be investing $1 million in six new projects to directly address water quality issues in two priority ecosystems in...
New Technology Aims to Improve Access to Safe Water in Refugee...
A new web-based tool aims to help aid workers ensure that water is safe to drink in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.
Researchers...
NWT Releases Videos Promoting Water Quality Monitoring Program
New videos promoting the NWT-wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring Program have been released by the Government of Northwest Territories’ Department of Environment and Natural...
Assessing the Ottawa River—Informing the Public on the Quality of the...
It’s an expression that resonates on so many levels in the water quality and watershed health assessment world! Inviting people to join, to enjoy,...
Data for Life—Clean Water Starts with Access to Data
As governments across Canada and around the world rally to address the coronavirus pandemic and the economic catastrophe it has unleashed, there is a...
New Freshwater Database Tells Water Quality Story for 12K Lakes Globally
York University researchers have created a publicly available water quality database that will help scientists monitor and manage the health of close 12,000 freshwater...
N.W.T. Releases Water Quality Results for Hay and Slave Rivers
The results of water quality monitoring conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in July 2020 indicate this year’s prolonged high water...
