News
B.C. Communities Need $13 Billion to Renew Water Infrastructure
Water Canada, Posted on March 2, 2015 The BC Water & Waste Association (BCWWA) has released a report stating that communities in British Columbia will need at....
Time when Southwest was wet and Northwest was dry aids efforts to predict future rainfall patterns
Science Daily, February 23, 2015 Cimate scientists now put the odds that the American Southwest is headed into a 30-year "mega drought" at 50/50. Meanwhile, the forecast....
Cattle damage to riverbanks can be undone
Science Daily, February 19, 2015 An example of comparing two photos using the visual site assessment method in Barnhardy Meadow. Willow have increased.....
B.C. to charge up to $2.25 for bottling 1 million litres of groundwater
THE CANADIAN PRESS FEBRUARY 5, 2015 VICTORIA — Companies will pay little more than a toonie to bottle as much groundwater as can fill a 25-metre swimming pool....
Special report: Leaking oil and gas wells across Canada ‘a threat to the environment and public safety’
Energy firms are boring another 10,000 wells a year as controversial fracking operations in Western Canada extend their reach BY MARGARET MUNRO, POSTMEDIA NEWS Serge Fortier has been....
AWWA announces changes to commonly used standards
IMPORTANT OVERHAUL OF WIDELY USED STANDARD The revision (ANSI/AWWA C651-14) is the result of multiple years of review, research, and discussion by the committee. The update also takes into....
Show us the money on water quality
Castanet, January 27, 2015 Water advisories are so frequent in the Okanagan since Interior Health raised its drinking water standards a few years ago, they have become....
Working Together to Prevent Aquatic Invasive Species
Columbia Basin Trust, January 8, 2015 Four invasive species committees and Columbia Basin Trust have come together with the goal to develop one cohesive strategy and implementation....