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City of Toronto opens energy and water reporting link for Toronto’s largest buildings

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.

Farmers in St. Mary River Irrigation District allocated 50% more water for 2025

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.

Compare and contrast: Water recycling could ease shrinking of Colorado River, new report finds

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.

Untreated wastewater, sewage, overflowing into Georgian Bay

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.

Compare and contrast: The rivers that science says shouldn’t exist

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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