Category: Water
Planet in Focus: Carbon for Water
Carbon for Water, directed by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson, premieres at this year’s Planet in Focus.
Check Your Watershed Day – July 16, 2011
Would you like to have some fun exploring the Credit River Watershed? Credit Valley Conservation needs volunteers to assist us with a one day monitoring event of the streams in the Upper Credit. No experience necessary!
Water-On-Wheels
Water-On-Wheels (WOW), a local Cobourg-based business, has developed a solution that provides events across Ontario with access to on site water sources.
Are We Conserving Great Lakes Water?
Toronto – More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great Lakes region of Ontario and Quebec, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. Down the Drain: Water Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin outlines how much water could be saved in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and gardens across the Great Lakes.
Credit River ecological services: Valued at $371 million annually
Mississauga – A new report by the Pembina Institute and Credit Valley Conservation found that the Credit River Watershed provides services worth more than $371 million to area residents each year. “One of the key aspects of valuing ecological services is the idea that Mother Nature does for free what we would otherwise have to [...]
Sand, Salt or….Ecotraction??
Yep you read that right. Ecotraction. I first heard about this product from a colleague who saw it on CBC’s Dragon’s Den. What is it exactly? It is a green alternative to salt, sand and de-icers. That means you get to have all the benefits of a slip free walkway/driveway this winter and don’t have [...]
Toxics bill ignores Ontario's biggest reported water polluters
Toronto – Sewage treatments plants are the Top 10 Water Polluters in Ontario, and are the largest reported releasers of mercury and lead into the province’s lakes, streams, and rivers, according to an analysis released yesterday by Environmental Defence. The analysis comes as a legislative committee at Queen’s Park reviews the government’s proposed Toxics Reduction [...]
RiverSides
RiverSides is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating RiverSafe communities. We protect rivers by reducing runoff pollution from individual properties through education and providing the tools people need to make the connection between personal action and healthy rivers. Our committment to water protection began in 1995 leading to our establishment as RiverSides in 1998. Through [...]
Your tap, your toilet and the Great Lakes
We must adopt practical, cost-saving methods to conserving Great Lakes water to offset the escalating demands of urban growth TIM MORRIS AND TONY MAAS Globe and Mail Update October 4, 2007 at 7:20 PM EDT Globe environment reporter Martin Mittelstaedt’s excellent article The Great Lakes Disappearing Act summarized succinctly the case of our shrinking Great [...]
Toilets key to cutting water use: Miller
Toronto Mayor David Miller launched an international campaign today for cities to cut their water use by 15 per cent in the next seven years. He suggested the best way to start would be to use more efficient toilets. TheStar.com – News – Toilets key to cutting water use: Miller
