Residents of St. Stephen are advised to continue boiling their water before drinking or using it to prepare food. The advisory was first issued Saturday morning due to turbidity (cloudiness) in the municipal water supply, which indicated it may be unsafe to drink and could cause serious illness. The turbidity was caused by ongoing repairs […]
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Cleaning water with quantum chemistry
When Diana Virgovicova was 14 she travelled to India with her mother. She saw rivers so polluted they were black. “That’s when the idea was born,” she says. “I decided I wanted to spend my life cleaning dirty water.” Read more in CIC News.
Farm Protection: Ontario invests in projects to help farms improve Great Lakes water quality
The Ontario government is funding projects aimed at helping farmers and landowners preserve water quality of the Great Lakes watershed. More than $2.5 million was awarded to 19 projects that ranged from green infrastructure projects to helping spread good land management practices to reduce the amount of contaminants and excess nutrients, such as phosphorous, entering […]
State of the Lakes: Great Lakes stable, but rollbacks of protection will soon bite
The overall condition of the Great Lakes has been assessed as “fair and unchanging” in the 2019 State of the Great Lakes joint report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental and Climate Change Canada, published on June 3. Read more in Great Lakes Now.