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Charlotte Water is constructing a $650-million advanced wastewater treatment facility to treat water from across a fast-growing region of nearly 3 million people by partnering with neighboring towns and delivering a project that can be readily expanded. The Stowe Regional Water Resource Recovery Facility, an umbrella name covering multiple related projects, will be able to treat 15 million gallons per day when it opens in 2027 – but it is positioned and designed to grow to 25 mgd when the time comes. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

Fast Company

Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and parts of the Midwest. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

Calgary Herald

While the incident was far from ideal, a recent sewage spill into the Bow River shouldn’t have any long-lasting health impacts on aquatic wildlife or the river itself, according to some scientists. The City of Calgary confirmed last Friday that potentially hundreds of millions of litres of untreated sewage seeped into the Bow River between March 19 and 28, temporarily resulting in high E. coli levels in the river. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

Water Canada

Alberta’s government has released three new policy directions so that water is only held back when absolutely needed. These new rules will make water transfers easier, free up more water in southern and central Alberta, and support economic growth for agriculture, industry and municipalities. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Governance.

April 7, 2025
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The Guardian

The project in Uganda has captured the disastrous effects of the climate crisis on a vital source of water that is central to the lives and sacred beliefs of the local Bakonzo community. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Glaciers.

Water Canada

The City of Toronto has opened its reporting link to allow owners of Toronto’s largest buildings to report their 2024 energy and water use to the City. Reporting supports building owners in their efforts to improve environmental performance, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and lower operating costs. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Governance.

Lethbridge News Now

The St. Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID) set its water allocation for 2025 at 12 inches, an increase of 50 per cent from last year. SMRID board chair George Lohues says the initial allocation in 2024 was eight inches as much of the province suffered from droughts. Timely rains in May allowed them to increase that to nine inches. At the end of the growing season in October 2024, they had accumulated 503,650 acre-feet of storage. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Irrigation.

ABC News

Researchers say they have identified a crucial solution for states to prevent continued strain on the Colorado River basin for their water needs. Water recycling can significantly lessen the burden on the Colorado River Basin, but just 26% of treated municipal wastewater is reused across the seven states that depend on the overdrawn river, according to an analysis by the University of California Los Angeles released on Wednesday. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.

Collingwood Today

Heavy rains have overwhelmed Collingwood’s wastewater treatment system, causing wastewater to bypass the full treatment system and dump into Georgian Bay. The town posted a notice this morning confirming a full treatment bypass at the water treatment plant headworks and at the Minnesota Street pumping station, both events beginning at 2 a.m. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Infrastructure.

Phys.org

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how waterways and basins are supposed to work. But rules are made to be broken. In the journal Water Resources Research, Sowby and Siegel lay out nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Click here to read the story.

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