Ontario Liberals get top mark for source water protection, testing, training  Release from EcoJustice November 15 2011 More than a decade after deadly gaps in drinking water management killed seven people in Walkerton, Ont., Ecojustice has released Waterproof 3, our third drinking water report card, ...

A proposal to replace the beaver with the polar bear as our national emblem causes fur to fly by Anne Kingston Macleans Friday, November 4, 2011 …William Shotyk, a geochemist and professor at the University of Alberta, has endured pesky beaver encroachment on a project replanting thousands of t...

Did some sleuthing on its travels Barrie Advance September 22 2011 Leslie Varsava of Ladies of the Lake Conservation Association reflects on water – where it’s going and what’s hitching a ride along the way. Read article ...

By Josh Tapper Toronto Star September 28 2011 Toronto’s drinking water could be at risk due to a recent proposal to treat toxic waste at a plant on the New York side of Lake Ontario Read more ...

Q&A with FAO Assistant Director-General for Natural Resources, Alexander Mueller FAO news release August 23 2011 The vulnerability of rain-dependent food production systems and the people who depend on them has been brought into stark relief by the situation in East Africa. Read more ...

Blue-green algae is a very serious, very solvable problem By Mark Mattson Waterkeeper.ca Weekly August 17 2011 Cyanobacteria in our Lakes and Rivers across Canada and the US (better know as blue-green algae) is a very serious problem. It also a fairly common problem this time of year. Warm, still, st...

Low water conditions for Innisfil Creek, Boyne River and Blue Mountain subwatershedsNews Release from Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority July 25 2011 UTOPIA – Low water conditions have been declared in parts of the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) watershed. A Level I low water...

$1.6 billion targeted in environmental initiatives, departure of dozens of scientists and technicians  News release from Council of Canadians July 4 2011 OTTAWA – Prominent scientists, environmentalists and groups issued a statement addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper today decrying cuts to En...

AWARE Simcoe June 4 2011Beth Brass Elson from Beausoleil Island First Nation, the First Nations representative on the AWARE Simcoe board, has embarked on the Mother Earth Water Walk.It's a journey to call attention to the sacred gift of water, the source of all life. She crossed the border at the Sau...

Policy makers wary of dealing with issue  By FELICITY BARRINGER New York Times IRVINE, Calif. — Scientists have been using small variations in the Earth’s gravity to identify trouble spots around the globe where people are making unsustainable demands on groundwater, one of the planet’s main sources ...