GreenSudbury

All you have to do is Google Wasi Lake and snuggled between property sales websites are the warnings about blue green algae that is impacting the lake, local business owners, and people trying to sell their homes.

Blind River's state of the art, multi-million dollar, water treatment plant has been in operation for about two years now -- but Blind River's nagging water quality problems are still not in the past.Complaints are still coming in, and councillors are every bit as frustrated as the rest of the town's residents, Mayor Bob Gallagher said at the council table recently.

Stormwater retention basins (SRBs) have been used in the City of Winnipeg since the early 1960s. The city and their land developers were in fact some of the earliest adopters of this technology. Early acceptance was based primarily on necessity as opposed aesthetics although it was recognized that retention basins did add to the visual appeal.

City council has agreed to spend $105,000 to enclose an open drainage ditch residents characterized as an "immediate and grave safety hazard" and "a scar in an otherwise pleasant neighbourhood."Earlier this year, the city completed improvements to the drainage course that runs between Raymond and Jeanne D'Arc streets in the Hanmer area.

The Current will be taking an in depth look at the many ways that water flows through everything we do and how a simple twist of the tap influences global politics, international economics and the ecology of the entire planet.

The public demonstrated a keen interest in conserving water on Saturday when a flood of people showed up to buy cheap rain barrels at a city sale on Frobisher Street.The city's rain barrel sale to promote smart outdoor water use sold out in 2 1/2 hours."They sold like hotcakes," said Celine Beaupre, operations engineer in the city's water and wastewater department. photo by: akeg

Short bio's and photo's of NDCA Source Protection Committee members.

A great example of local water quality community groups - The Three Lakes Association serves the Chain of Lakes Watershed in Antrim County, Michigan.

In 1986 the French River was identified as a Canadian Heritage river. It has played an important part in our country’s history and continues to provide recreational and fishing opportunities to residents and to an active tourism industry.

A report produced this week by Ecojustice (formerly the Sierra Legal Defence Fund), claims Greater Sudbury discharged 2.6 billion litres of untreated sewer water into area water systems in 2006-07. (Niagara Falls was the worst offender in Ontario, at almost seven billion litres.) photo by: ideanorth

It's time to take another look at the waterfront. Just last week, the city unveiled the latest example of lakeside revitalization, the brand new WaveDeck immediately west of the foot of Simcoe St.

The contest was held to remind kids to be cautious around creeks, rivers and lakes. Adam Dickie was a 13-year-old who drowned after falling into a section of Junction Creek on Aug. 25, 2007.photo by: ideanorth

"Are we condemned to be largely spectators? Can we affect the course of events? Can we claim 'compassion fatigue' when we show no sign of consumption fatigue?"

—Sebastião Salgado