Balking at huge price jumps, city may abandon planned new water pipe
Cabin Radio City of Yellowknife staff are recommending that council scrap plans to build a new drinking-water pipe stretching from the Yellowknife River, saying the $100-million cost is too much. […]
Compare and contrast: NSW and Queensland floods update: BoM defends forecasts after claim coastal community not properly warned
The Guardian The Fraser Coast mayor, George Seymour, said the bureau should review its systems, claiming the area was not adequately warned before it was pelted with more than 260mm […]
Compare and contrast: Inside Trump and DOGE’s chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California’s water
CNN Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency repeatedly pressured the head of a United States water management agency to open a major California pump system in late January, intending […]
Compare and contrast: California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s water
Al Jazeera Just before midnight on March 7, 1928, the St Francis Dam, located roughly 80km (50 miles) inland of Los Angeles, collapsed. The dam had been marred by cracks […]
Sarnia invests $29.5M to upgrade wastewater system and prevent flooding
Water Canada The City of Sarnia is undertaking a major infrastructure project to address the increased risk of basement flooding and sewer overflows due to more frequent and intense storms. […]
Grassy Narrows First Nation sees start of mercury treatment facility decades after the river was poisoned
CBC Williamson, like roughly 90 per cent of residents in Grassy Narrows First Nation, has been impacted by mercury poisoning that dates back to the 1960s and ’70s, when the […]
Compare and contrast: Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific targets in water pollution permits
The Conversation – United States The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act […]
Nunavut MLAs push for updates on water infrastructure projects
CBC Both Coral Harbour and Igloolik have experienced boil-water advisories in recent months due to issues with their water treatment plants. Coral Harbour has seen two since mid-October due to […]
Grindrod Water Treatment Plant infrastructure upgrades
Water Canada The Grindrod Water Utility is a single building that houses a packaged water treatment system. Raw water is diverted from the Shuswap River and pumped into the single […]
Compare and contrast: US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
The Guardian The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act. […]