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Jeff Wright, drain commissioner for Genesee County, which has applied to state environmental regulators for permission to take up to 322 million litres (85 million gallons) per day from the lake.

"Detroit has already done the design work to build a second pipeline," Wright said. "There is plans to have a second pipeline, period, whether we build it or Detroit builds it, because we have one pipeline servicing 1.2 million people -- a 50-year old pipeline."

A Michigan application was filed last week by Genesee County’s Drain Commission with the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to withdraw almost 322 million litres (85 million gallons) a day from Lake Huron. photo by: blueraine tigerseye

Apartments are mushrooming all over our cities with the boom in the housing sector. These apartments place a huge demand on the infrastructure of the city, be it water, sewerage, stormwater drains or roads.

Worried about drought, Washington State is planning to dam the Similkameen River. Opponents say the project would trigger destructive floods in B.C.

Here in the Canadian Shield, in the wonderful Township of Nipissing, there is a gravel quarry planned that threatens to disrupt a significant local water source -- a natural spring of living water up on the Nipissing Ridge that is the creek headwater for an important tributary of Lake Nipissing.

Will Canada ever sell its water in bulk?Ask Canadians and poll results consistently show an unequivocal no.So that's the end of it, right? Not if you listen to Gwynne Dyer. The Star's renowned international affairs columnist says Canada needs to "get over" this resistance to selling water to the United States. photo by: ideanorth

The Fast Flowing Water Poster Contest is an initiative by the Junction Creek Safety Committee, which was struck by the city shortly after Dickie's death.

After picking countless plastic water bottles out of ditches and creeks across North Bay last summer, members of North Bay Blooms are taking action with a campaign to get residents drinking from the tap. photo by: sister72

Josephine Mandamin warms you with her grandmotherly smile and speaks in soft aboriginal tones that lull you into agreement, even as she conks you on the head.

This ceremony is our way of asking for a good fishing season and to celebrate renewal in Nipissing Territory as another season begins.

Representatives of Rainy River First Nations here and the White Earth Band of Ojibwe of northwestern Minnesota are expressing concerns that communities on both sides of the border are bypassing wastewater into the Rainy River and endangering lake sturgeon.photo by: SFBoater

I just love maps and this shows the location of bottle water factories across Cnada