Announcements

14 September 2010
Water resources declining in Canada: Statistics Canada

Tannis Toohey, Toronto Star, 13 September 2010

OTTAWA—A new report says renewable water resources have declined in Southern Canada over the past three decades.

Statistics Canada says water yield in the southern part of the country, the area in which 98 per cent of the population lives, fell by an average of 3.5 cubic kilometres a year between 1971 and 2004.

The agency equates the annual loss to 1.4 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, and almost as much water as was supplied to Canada’s entire residential population in 2005.

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10 May 2010
2010 Freshwater Summit

Freshwater is an important local, provincial, national, and international resource and how we manage our inland lakes and rivers has economic, social, and environmental implications.

The 2010 Freshwater Summit will highlight issues and trends and examine policy options for future action.

The Summit will be held on June 1 and 2 at the Rene M Caisse Memorial Theatre, Bracebridge, Ontario.

For registration details, please visit the Summit website, www.2010freshwatersummit.org.

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29 March 2010
Source Protection Areas and Regions Educational Pamphlets

The Canadian Environmental Law Association and Environmental Defence have prepared nineteen educational pamphlets on source protection. These pamphlets were created to increase awareness of and to encourage citizen participation in Ontario's source protection planning process.

We would like to thank all the individuals from across the province who contributed to the development of these pamphlets.

The pamphlets can be downloaded here.

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7 January 2010
Ontario source protection and releases of pollution to the province's air, water and land

A new report shows that federal pollution data would give valuable additional information to the program created to protect sources of Ontarians' drinking water. The report, released today by the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and Environmental Defence, tracks and maps pollution from facilities reporting to the federal government’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) in Ontario source protection areas and regions. These facilities release large amounts of chemicals to the air and water and the report recommends that these sources of pollution be included in assessing drinking water threats. While water releases may have been considered in most of the source protection regions, air releases have likely not been considered to date.

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13 August 2009
Coalition Urges Ontarians to Support Development of a World-Class Water Strategy

Today, a coalition of water professionals, university think-tanks, environmental and citizen-based groups called on government to take immediate and aggressive action on water conservation. H2Ontario: A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Water Conservation Strategy outlines a strategy for making Ontario world-leaders in cutting wasteful water practices, and urges Ontarians to support development of a world-class action plan.

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