Water News

WATER NEWS – General (2016 and earlier)

Date	Source	Title	Comment
2016-12-12	CBC	Billions of litres of raw sewage, untreated waste water pouring into Canadian waterways	Elizabeth Thompson
2016-12-07	AWARE Simcoe	We did it! The Nottawasaga River is protected again!	Kate Harries, Anne Learn Sharpe
2016-11-22	CBC Montreal	Quebec City dumps raw sewage into St. Lawrence River	Ainslie MacLellan {again?!}
2016-10-18	Sudbury.com	We all live upstream: Campaign highlights water source protection
2016-10-07	CBC News	Thanksgiving Monday protest planned over cleanup from 2015 Gogama train derailment	AO Info – First Nations News AO Info – Rail News
2016-10-03	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	World's First Aerial Survey of Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 'It's Worse Than We Thought'	Lorraine Chow / Boyan Slat - The Ocean Cleanup (fb)
2016-09-17	Guardian (UK)	Florida sinkhole causes vast leak of wastewater into drinking water source	AO Info:  Sinkholes
2016-09-03	Barrie Examiner	Boil water advisory in Tay Township
2016-08-10	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Residents Protest Closure of Contaminated Water Source	Frobert Owot - closure of contaminated source or corporate interests?
2016-08-10	QuinteNews	Protecting Municipal Water Sources	Mary Thomas
2016-07-21	Orangeville Banner	Source water protection underway in Orangeville	James Matthews
2016-07-15	BBC.com (UK)	Mud runners sick after National Water Sports Centre event	- illness blamed on poor water quality
2016-07-05	Grist.org	Why is a ton of trash washing up on beaches in Hong Kong? It’s a mystery!	Kate Yoder
2016-07-01	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	‘Guacamole-Thick’ Algae Takes Over Florida’s Atlantic Coast, 4 Counties Declare State of Emergency	Lorraine Chow AO Info:  Climate Change
2016-05-07	CBC News	Alberta:  Fort McMurray water technicians stayed behind to save vital service	Andrea Ross AO Info: Alberta oil & gas
2016-03-22	Social Plastic	How Much Plastic is in the Ocean and How the Hell Did It Get There?	Sean Macmillan
2016-02-25	National Post	Victoria’s fight over treating its sewage — or keep pushing it raw into ocean as it has for decades	Brian Hutchinson - Victoria, B.C.
2016-02-02	KCRA.com (USA)	Stockton residents, Erin Brockovich voice concerns at meeting
2016-01-18	CBC News	Water security a Canadian issue, not just a developing world issue
2016-01-16	TheGuardian.com (UK / USA)	Flint's water crisis: what went wrong	Ryan Felton
2016-01-13	Youtube / TED Talks	The Four Fish We're Overeating — and What to Eat Instead | Paul Greenberg | TED Talks	Paul Greenberg
2016-01-13	DeadState (USA)	After poisoning them with lead, Flint sends its citizens a message: ‘Your water bill is past due’	Andrew Wertz
2016-01-12	CBC News	Trudeau announces funding for water research in Ontario	"We are committed to building a more sustainable economy that ensures we leave a cleaner and healthier environment for our children and grandchildren." Justin Trudeau
2016-01-08	UTS	Preserving the Earth’s favourite water source	- Australia - Professor Derek Eamus
2016-01-08	EcoWatch / TakePart	Groundbreaking Study Says Asian Carp Could Make Up One-Third of Lake Erie Biomass	Padma Nagappan, TakePart
2016-01-07	TheMercury.com	Bird poo confirmed source of Wynyard’s water contamination	Helen Kempton - Tasmania
2016-01-06	New York Times	The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare	Nathaniel Rich
2015-12-22	CivilEats.com	Atrazine: The Latest Pesticide on Trial	Elizabeth Grossman - Atrazine and water
2015-12-06	Abc12.com	Canada delays decision to put nuclear waste site near Great Lakes	Kellie Meyer AO News:  Nuclear
2015-12-04	Woodstock Sentinel Review	Province approves Grand River source protection plan to keep municipal drinking water in the region safe from any threats	Megan Stacey
2015-11-23	SimcoeReformer.ca	Focus on Delhi: Abandoned wells identified as threats	Monte Sonnenberg
2015-11-03	TakePart.com	A Terminator Fish Is Moving at Record Speed Toward the Great Lakes	David Kirby
2015-10-29	DurhamRegion.com	Durham on the hunt for new Port Perry water source	AO News: Waste Management
2015-10-16	Global News	No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters: Rio 2016 organizers	Jenny Barchfield
2015-09-09	Owen Sound Sun Times	Downpour causes sewage plant bypasses
2015-08-14	Vice	Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast — And it Could Signal Trouble Deep in the Ocean	Hilary Beaumont
2015-08-06	Ring of Fire Radio (USA)	The Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” – Larger Than Two States and Growing: Thank You Polluters
2015-08-04	Toronto Star	Toronto told to tell public when untreated sewage sent into Lake Ontario	Keith Leslie
2015-06-24	HindustanTimes	The Yamuna, our biggest source of water, is dead	Mallica Joshi - New Delhi, India
2015-06-11	Envirolaw.com	Anti-fracking and Great Lakes Bills to Committee	Dianne Saxe
2015-06-	CTV News	Rivers, lakes loaded with artificial sweeteners, researchers say	Amy Legate-Wolfe
2015-06-02	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	Boyan Slat to Deploy ‘Longest Floating Structure in World History’ to Clean Ocean Plastic	Lorraine Chow - Boyan Slat, 20 year old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup
2015-05-15	Chatham Daily News	Wallaceburg doesn't want to draw its water from Lake Erie	David Gough
2015-05-15	BBC News (UK)	Record number of England's beaches face water quality failures	Claire Marshall
2015-05-06	Youtube / Story of Stuff Project	Microbeads - The Story of Stuff Project	Story of Stuff Project
2015-05-05	EcoWatch / Oil Change Int’l	Fracking Chemicals Found in Drinking Water, New Study Says	Andy Rowell
2015-05-04	New York Times	Fracking Chemicals Detected in Pennsylvania Drinking Water	Nicholas St. Fleur - This is the first case published with a complete story showing organic compounds attributed to shale gas development found in a homeowner’s well
2015-05-04	Guelph Mercury	Water a worry for future Guelph	Rob O’Flanagan
2015-05-04	Care2.com / TreeHugger	Oregon’s Lost Lake Is Disappearing Through a Strange Hole	- lava tube
2015-05-02	StarTribune.com	Climate change is a culprit in decline of Minnesota walleye	Josephine Marcotty
2015-04-22	Government of Ontario, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change	Ontario Approves Plan to Protect Drinking Water in Essex Region	News release
2015-04-10	MyKawartha.com	Plan to protect Peterborough-area drinking water now underway	Sarah Frank
2015-03-26	Quinte News	Source water protection working in County	- Quinte Conservation Authority
2015-03-26	North Bay Nipissing News	Source protection regulations adopted by province	Kathryn Boyle - North Bay – Mattawa Conservation Authority
2015-03-24	Toronto Star	Scathing report on health of Canada’s waters accuses Ottawa of wilful negligence	Raveena Aulakh
2015-03-17	Environmental Law & Litigation	Blog: Planning for drought and drinking water in Ontario	Dianne Saxe - Clean Water Act, 2006 - Ontario Low Water Response - Permits to Take Water (PTTW)
2015-03-16	Huffington Post	Blog: How to Take Long Showers and Still Save the World From Drought	Adam J. Rose
2015-03-16	Reuters	In Russia, a drying lake threatens an 'era of water wars'	Angelina Davydova - Russia
2015-02-28	Economist	Bottled Water in China
2015-02-27	ABC News (USA)	Some California Farmers to Go Without Federal Water	Fenit Nirappil
2015-02-20	WUSA9.com	Source of petroleum-smelling water in NW DC not found	- difficult to find water contamination source
2015-02-19	KEYT.com	Drought Impacting Quality of Ventura's Drinking Water	Kelsey Gerckens - trihalomethanes
2015-02-15	Natural News	City of 20 million people to cut water service to just 2 days per week; humanity plunging towards ecological disaster	Jonathan Benson
2015-02-11	Time	This Plant in Dubai Makes Half a Billion Gallons of Fresh Water a Day	Desalination - impressive pic of plant
2015-01-30	JournalStar.com (USA)	Farm and food: Nitrates runoff and fallout	Des Moines Water Works sues asking a court to assign responsibility for an increasingly expensive, increasingly dangerous public health problem affecting a half million Iowans that the state and its farmers have failed to fix.
2014-12-28	Daily Record (UK)	Doctor claims Scotland's biggest windfarm has contaminated public water supply with cancer-causing chemical	Craig McDonald AO Info: Energy Alternatives News
2014-12-24	edhat.com (USA)	Lawsuit Filed to Protect Water Quality	USA - storm water run-off
2014-12-18	Ring of Fire Radio	Federal Judge Denies DuPont’s Attempt to Renege on Promise to Contaminated Community	USA Joshua Schwitzerlett
2014-12-17	CNN	Six charged in West Virginia water contamination	Sonia Moghe
2014-12-11	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Groundbreaking Study: 5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Floating in World’s Oceans	Anastasia Pantsios
2014-12-11	Ring of Fire Radio (USA)	Study Estimates More than 250,000 Tons of Plastic Waste Floating in World’s Oceans	Amy Eddings
2014-12-11	Youtube / Clondalkin Meter Watch	Irish Water Claims Ownership Of The Rainwater (5 mins)	Richard Boyd Barrett - privatization of water - rainwater
2014-12-08	TheVerge.com	Harvesting the clouds: how to make water out of fog	Sandeep Ravindran
2014-12-07	Economic Times	China follows India, rushes water to crisis-hit Maldives	- Male, Maldives has no natural water source and depends entirely on treated sea water
2014-12-02	Quinte News	Greater protection for water sources	- Quinte, eleven municipal drinking water systems, from Madoc and Tweed south to Prince Edward County - Belleville
2014-11-19	The Atlantic CityLab	Acid Rain has Turned Canadian Lakes into a Kind of Jelly	John Metcalfe
2014-10-03	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Ocean Health Gets ‘D’ Grade in New Global Index	Anastasia Pantsios
2014-10-04	CBC quirks & Quarks	Plastic Pollution Plagues the St. Lawrence
2014-09	Southern Fried Science	Charm City’s Water Wheel: The first truly feasible ocean cleaning array is already afloat	Andrew David Thaler - Baltimore, USA
2014-09-01	Ring of Fire	Garbage Patches Make Up As Much As 40 Percent of Ocean Surface	Amy Eddings
2014-08-28	Associated Press / triblive.com	DEP releases details of cases of drinking well contamination from drilling	The Associated Press AO Info: Oil & Gas News
2014-08-28	EcoWatch / SkyTruth	Massive Half-Mile-Long Crack Appears in Ground in Northern Mexico
2014-08-25	Youtube / Water.org	Matt Damon takes the ALSA Ice Bucket Challenge	Matt Damon (2 mins)
2014-08-19	National Geographic	If You Think the Water Crisis Can't Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained	Dennis Dimick
2014-08-06	Toronto Star	Lake Huron nuclear dump scheme in trouble: Walkom	Thomas Walkom DGRP
2014-08-03	EcoWatch / Circle of Blue	Toxic Algae Bloom Leaves 500,000 Without Drinking Water in Ohio	Codi Yeager-Kozacek Lake Erie
2014-07-28	EcoWatch / Marcus Eriksen	Plastic Pellets Pollute Lake Erie	Marcus Eriksen Lake Erie
2014-07-27	The Guardian (UK)	Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit	Suzanne McGee
2014-07-24	EcoWatch / California Coastkeeper Alliance	Businesses Unite for Swimmable, Fishable and Drinkable Water
2014-07-23	EcoWatch / Brandon Baker	EPA Denies Texas’ Emergency Request to Use Dangerous Herbicide on 3 Million Cotton Field Acres	Brandon Baker
2014-07-16	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	First-of-its-Kind Map Details Extent of Plastic in Five Ocean Gyres	Anastasia Pantsios
2014-07-16	Ecojustice	Waterproof: Standards	- first national drinking water report card
2014-07-16	Lake Scientist	Microplastics Pollution In The Great Lakes Ecosystem: Summary of Presentations at IAGLR 2014	Laura K. Alford, Patricia Corcoran, Alex Driedger, Melisssa Duhaime, Hans Durr, Paul Helm, Sherri A. Mason, Todd Norris
2014-06-27	Change.org / Paul Martin	Petition:  Ban Ki-moon: Help secure a living ocean, food and prosperity - propose a new agreement for high seas protection in September 2014
2014-06-07	Global Research	Opinion: Water War? Turkey Cuts Water Supply to Syria. Euphrates Shut Down	Michael Collins
2014-04-06	Global News	Is there Atrazine in your drinking water?	Allison Vuchnich and Gil Shochat
2014-06-02	EcoWatch / Brandon Baker	Michigan State Researchers Create Technology That Converts Cow Manure Into Clean Water	Brandon Baker
2014-05-28	Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians	Water Cut Offs in Detroit Are a Violation of Human Rights	Maude Barlow
2014-05-16	Youtube / Adam Lindquist	Water Wheel operating in a rain storm (Baltimore, MD) (3 mins)	Jones Falls, Baltimore, Maryland USA
2014-05-01	CNN Money	What is water worth?	Brian Dumaine
2014-04-30	CBC News	Fracking's effect on water not properly monitored, report finds	Margo McDiarmid Link to AO Info: Oil & Gas News
2014-04-16	Montreal Gazette	Thaw stirs up oil spilled in Lac-Mégantic derailment	Monique Beaudin - Lac Megantic
2014-04-12	BBC News Asia	China Water contamination affects 2.4m after oil leak
2014-02-05	Theguardian.com	Fracking is depleting water supplies in America's driest areas, report shows	Suzanne Goldenberg Link to AO Info: Oil & Gas News
2014-01-22	EcoWatch / CleanTechnica	12 Days After West Virginia Chemical Spill, Company Admits to Second Chemical	Tina Casey - West Virginia spill
2014-01-21	West Virginia Public Broadcasting (USA)	Freedom Industries Approved for $4 Million in Credit Following Spill	Associated Press - West Virginia spill
2014-01-18	Daily Mail Online (UK)	Drowned by EU millions: Thought 'extreme weather' was to blame for the floods? Wrong. The real culprit is the European subsidies that pay UK farmers to destroy the very trees that soak up the storm	George Monbiot
2014-01-10	EcoWatch / Donna Lisenby	300,000 West Virginians Told Not to Drink Water After Coal Chemical Spill, 600+ Sick	Donna Lisenby - West Virginia spill
2014-01-06	Global News / Associated Press	8 options to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes: Army Corps report	John Flesher
2014-01-06	Huffington Post	Water Pollution From Drilling Confirmed In At Least 4 States, Casting Doubt On Safety Of Boom	Kevin Begos
2014-01-07	Toronto Star	Canadian lobster and crab fisheries accused of endangering whales	Mitch Potter
2013-12-29	Owen Sound Sun Times	Bulk water law a highlight for Miller in 2013	Denis Langlois
2013-12-24	EcoNews / Earthworks (USA)	Inspector General Finds EPA Justified in Intervening to Protect Drinking Water from Fracking
2013-11-27	Lake Ontario Waterkeeper	Confirmed:  Toronto dumped 1-billion litres of sewage after July storm
2013-11-27	EcoWatch /	Prescription Drugs Entering the Great Lakes at Alarming Rate	Brian Bienkowski
2013-11-26	WC Native News	(Video) Burning Water	Derrick - Rosebud River Valley, Alberta (one hour east of Calgary)
2013-11-25	Nature.com	Changes to Canada’s fisheries law alarm biologists	Anne Casselman - controversial changes to Fisheries Act (2012) take effect removing protections for 80% of endangered freshwater species
2013-11-22	EcoWatch / Alliance for the Great Lakes	Tar Sands Industry Eyes Great Lakes for Cheap Shipping
2013-11-22	EcoWatch / Donna Lisenby	First Nations Furious Over Mishandling of Canada’s Largest Coal Slurry Spill	Donna Lisenby
2013-11-15	EcoWatch / Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Powering the Planet: How Do We Balance Energy, Water and Climate?	David L. Chandler
2013-10-30	EcoNews / EcoWatch	New Report Exposes Impacts of Fracking on Water	Water Resource Reporting and Water Footprint from Marcellus Shale Development in West Virginia and Pennsylvania
2013-10-28	Globe and Mail	Asian carp have reproduced in Great Lakes watershed, researchers find	John Flesher
2013-10-22	CTV News	MNR stocking Lake Simcoe to keep fish population sustainable	Heather Wright - fish stocking is big business
2013-09-11	Observer	Fuel leaked from Sarnia pipeline	Paul Morden - caused Wallaceburg and Walpole Island to close drinking water intakes
2013-09-11	CBC	Winnipeg’s brown water problem discussed at city hall
2013-09-03	CBC	Q essay: Unbottling our water (5mins)	Jian Ghomeshi
2013-08-18	Toronto Star	Rehab has made the Credit River a hot spot for salmon fishing	Robin Levinson
2013-08-14	Global News	Sewage pollution of Toronto’s water among worst in Ontario: study	James Armstrong, Jackson Proskow
2013-08-12	Toronto Star	Toronto's Humber River: A Canadian heritage river worth protecting	Robin Levinson
2013-08-11	Toronto Star	Toronto beaches are ‘world class’ but still avoided by locals	Alex Nino Gheciu
2013-08-05	Toronto Star	Toronto’s Don River:  from trash to natural treasure	Robin Levinson
2013-08-02	EcoWatch / 5 Gyres Institute	5 Gyres Institute Sets Sail to Study Plastic Pollution in Lake Michigan
2013-07-19	Telegraph (UK)	Water firms raise fears over shale gas fracking	Emily Gosden
2013-07-11	Toronto Star	Toronto flooding released raw sewage in a sweep to Lake Ontario	Marc Ellison
2013-07-10	Lester Brown	Peak Water:  What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?
2013-07-08	Toronto Star	Why Waukesha’s thirst for Great Lakes water is raising alarms on both sides of the border	Mitch Potter Aquifer depletion
2013-07-03	EcoWatch / Food & Water Watch	Opinion: Will Americans Allow Public Water to be Privatized?	Elizabeth Schuster
2013-07-01	EcoWatch / Clean Technica	Energy Efficient Process Discovered to Turn Seawater into Freshwater	Nathan August
2013-06-14	Owen Sound Sun Times	Low water affecting homeowners	Rob Gowan Georgian Bay Meeting scheduled for July 4, 2013
2013-06-13	Portland Daily Sun (USA)	Fryeburg residents protest proposed Nestle Waters contract	Maine, USA Nestle Waters of North America Poland Spring Fryeburg Water Co. Evergreen Spring
2013-06-05	Common Dreams	UN Warns of World Without Water	Andrea Germanos
2013-05-24	Guardian UK	Global Majority Faces Water Shortages “Within Two Generations”	Fiona Harvey
2013-05-24	CBC - The Current	What a Decade of Low Water Levels has meant for the Great Lakes	Produced by Sarah Harmer
2013-05-03	Bayshore Broadcasting	Harbour Support	Matt Villeneuve Georgian Bluffs & Owen Sound harbour
2013-04-22	Manlymedia	Troubled Water – full film (52mins)	Paul Manly Experiences from Nanaimo, BC
2013-04-25	WC Native News	Harper’s water privatization
2013-04-24	Ottawa Citizen	Ontario announces experimental lakes research area to remain open this year
2013-04-20	Bayshore Broadcasting	Owen Sound closes boat launch over low water levels
2013-04-19	Collective Evolution	19-Year-Old Develops Cleanup Array To Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From Oceans	Joe Martino
2013-04-19	Owen Sound Times	Low water shuts down boat launch	Denis Langlois Georgian Bay, Lake Huron
2013-04-15	Shoreline Beacon	Lakes need rainy summer from hell	Scott Dunn
2013-04-12	National Geographic	New Concerns About Plastic Pollution in Great Lakes’ “Garbage Patch”	Lisa Borre, Water Currents
2013-04-09	EcoWatch	The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic with a Floating ‘Ocean Cleanup Array’	Stiv Wilson Ocean plastic pollution
2013-03-23	Reuters	Slideshow:  Polluted waterways	Protect Our Water!  Please …
2013-03-07	Bayshore Broadcasting	Low Levels Impact Chi Cheemaun	Manny Paiva Georgian Bay
2013-03-04	AWARE Simcoe	Petition:  Protect the Nottawasaga River in the Navigation Protection Act
2013-02-21	Guelph Tribune	Wellington Water Watchers back water-taking restrictions
2013-02-17	Lfpress.com	Canada’s top water expert rings alarm bell at conference	QMI Agency
2013-02-17	RestoreOurWater.com	Petition:  Restore Our Water	Requesting $200mm fix to install sills in the St. Clair River to reduce outflow from lakes Michigan and Huron.
2013-02-12	SFGate	NASA:  Alarming water loss in Middle East	Michael Casey, AP
2013-02-06	CBC News	Lake Huron, Lake Michigan hit lowest water levels on record	The Associated Press
2013-02-05	Guelph Mercury	City of Guelph will seek to appeal water taking permit issued to local quarry operator	Scott Tracey James Dick Resources, Guelph
2013-02-05	Associated Press	2 Great Lakes Hit Lowest Water Level on Record	John Flesher Lakes Huron and Michigan
2013-01-22	Brant News	The science of gravel extraction	Jason Teakle extraction leaves water vulnerable to pesticides
2013-01-17	CNN	New water lows for Great Lakes could drain local economies	Mike Pearson
2012-12-10	Orangeville.com Orangeville Banner	Waterways need protection too (editorial)
2012-10-25	Nature.com	Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water	Frederick Kaufman
2012-08-28	BrantfordExpositor.ca	Simcoe’s drinking water at risk due to nitrate levels	Daniel R. Pearce
2011-06	Canadian Geographic	The purest water in the world?	Fraser Los Elmvale, ON
2009-08-04	TED Talk / Youtube	Michael Pritchard:  How to make filthy water drinkable	Michael Pritchard www.lifesaversystems.com
2008-06-16	CBC News	Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites	Terry Milewski

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