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Ducks Unlimited CAN

With over 70 per cent of wetlands already lost in developed areas of Ontario, the most significant impact is on wildlife habitat. However, urban areas are increasingly affected, as water has fewer places to go—a reality many GTA residents have likely observed through news coverage of flooding along Toronto’s Don River. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Flood.

Phys.org

Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and short rain showers in somewhat equal measure. However, if both types of precipitation occur at the same time, as is typical for thunderstorm cloud clusters, the amount of precipitation increases more strongly with increasing temperature. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

National Geographic

While evidence for the flood is still accumulating, this is the scientist’s best picture yet of what’s likely the largest flood in the history of the Earth. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Flood.

The Conversation – Africa

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly in the city, turning it into a sprawling urban settlement without the necessary drainage infrastructure. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Flood.

The Free Press

All forms of life have a relationship with water. Water droplets in our breath connect us intimately, as we learned during the pandemic. Nishnaabeg think of water as the lifeblood of the earth. We think of the Great Lakes as internal organs that filter and clean water before sending it along the Gchi-Ziibing, or the St. Lawrence River, to the Atlantic Ocean. Click here to read the story.

April 28, 2025
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Ecology, Ecosystem, Environment, International

CBC

In five of the last eight summers, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has implemented stage 4 watering restrictions, the highest level, which ban all outdoor water use. That means no watering lawns or gardens or washing cars. Since 2021, farms have been given a two-week grace period once those restrictions begin, after which they can’t use municipal water on their crops. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Drought.

The Guardian

We have forgotten that our fate flows with that of rivers, and always has. Our relationship with fresh water has become intensely instrumentalised, privatised and monetised: river understood as resource, not life force. Click here to read the story.

Water World

“Funding for water infrastructure is vital to healthy Americans and economic opportunity. These federal dollars, which are invested by states, bring down costs and make needed water infrastructure upgrades attainable”. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

APTN News

Built in 1958, the dam is an important piece of infrastructure for the Yukon, generating around 75 per cent of the territory’s energy needs in the summer and 40 per cent during the winter months. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

Global News

A First Nation is launching a legal challenge to the British Columbia government’s approval of a tailings pond dam expansion at the Mount Polley mine. The approval comes just over a decade after a tailings pond burst at the same mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of mining wastewater into local waterways one of the province’s worst-ever environmental disasters. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

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