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Newsweek

New York City’s drinking water could eventually absorb a blow if reservoirs supplying a portion of it become vacated due to rising salinity, according to a new report. The reservoirs supply 10 percent of the city’s 9 million people who use the system, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

Discover Airdrie

A Cochrane-area gravel pit at the centre of groundwater contamination claims has received conditional approval from Alberta’s Land and Property Rights Tribunal, which deferred environmental concerns to the province’s environmental appeals board. Click here to read the story.

The Western Producer

When the water becomes available to producers, it influences when they’ll seed and therefore the productive potential of the crops they’re seeding. However, from the board’s perspective, that has to be balanced with ensuring supply will be available and that any future precipitation can be managed properly. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Irrigation.

The Conversation – Global

The 1960 treaty splits the management of the transnational Indus River basin between the two countries. India gained full rights over the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, three tributaries of the Indus River known collectively as the eastern rivers. Pakistan gained most of the rights over three western rivers – the Indus main stem and two more tributaries, the Jhelum and Chenab. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Governance.

The Conversation – Africa

Water pollution in South Africa, as in other developing countries, poses a significant health and economic threat. South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation’s 2023 Blue Drop Audit Report found that 46% of the country’s water was polluted by bacteria or germs that cause illness and nearly 68% of sewage treatment works were on the point of failure. Click here to read the story.

The Hill

Rapid melts across the U.S. West have caused snowpack to disappear up to four weeks early in some areas — wreaking potential havoc on the region’s water supply, federal meteorologists warned Thursday. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

Water Canada

Stantec has been selected by the City of Vancouver, Washington, to design a treatment system to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from a high-volume water station—with the goal of providing cleaner, more reliable drinking water for the community. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

University of Waterloo

“Canada has over one quarter of the world’s peatlands, with most currently intact. Therefore, we have the responsibility to steward this globally significant carbon stock,” Strack reflects. “This Chair provides the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of peatland management decisions in Canada’s climate action plans and the research program will train the next generation of experts to support implementation of wetland climate solutions.”. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

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Canada, Ecosystem, Environment, Innovation, ON, Research

USGS

A wetland can typically be identified as such by the presence of characteristic environments related to water, soil, and aquatic plants. But…no wetland is the same. Each wetland varies in its hydrology, plant community composition, soil types, biogeochemical processes, climate, among other environmental factors. They can be different sizes and may be freshwater or saltwater ecosystems. Examples of wetlands studied by scientists at the USGS WARC include salt marshes, bald cypress swamps, and mangrove forests. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

CBC

A second fly-in Cree community on Ontario’s James Bay Coast is now being evacuated with the rising risk of spring flooding. Fort Albany First Nation announced that the first 200 people are expected to be airlifted to Cochrane on Wednesday. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Flood.

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