Drinking water

• Safe drinking water policy for Canada--turning hindsight into foresight.

The Walkerton and North Battleford drinking water outbreaks in 2000 and 2001 highlighted major inadequacies in Canada's drinking water system. Yet rou...

• C.D. Howe Institute Commentary
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water, And Liability

The better our detection ability becomes, the more things we find in the water. One important group of those things is pharmaceuticals and their metab...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• Trusting the tap: one key lesson from the Walkerton and North Battleford tainted water tragedies is the need to protect our drinking water at the source.

The investigations into the tragedies exposed flaws in systems with fragmented responsibility, unenforceable guidelines, downloaded infrastructure cos...

• Alternatives Journal
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 2, March 2003

• Aboriginal Communities Denied Rights to Safe Drinking Water

Boiling Point" is a document published by the Polaris Institute in collaboration with the Assembly of First Nations and supported by the Canadian Labour Congress. In the work, researchers Andrea Harden-Donahue and Holly Levalliant profile the water problems faced by each of six First Nations communities - only one of which is currently ranked as "priority" by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) in its most recent progress report on the "Plan of Action for Drinking Water in First Nations Communities". "They're a bit of a different story from some of the other profiles in "Boiling Point", because right now they indeed do have clean water, which is great," Harden-Donahue said. "The reason being, is that in 1999, the Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF) became involved. The reason t...

• Saskatchewan Sage
• August 27, 2009

• Virden Residents Worried About Drinking Water

The issue of arsenic levels in Virden's drinking water has been raised as a concern by a few local residents. According to the town's public water system report, arsenic levels in the water supply have been sitting around 0.04 mg/L for the past several years.

• Brandon Sun, The
• March 22, 2010

• Feds Set Agenda for Clean Drinking Water

The critical problem isn't money," the newly appointed minister told Windspeaker during a phone interview hours after the press conference. "The critical problem, according to the auditor general, is accountability. So that's step one. The other critical problem to the auditor general is the absence of standards, so we've dealt with that. I think you have to appreciate what we've done here. We've introduced the concept of what I call communities at risk. In the past there was no system of priorizing where communities fit into the overall framework. So if something bad happened, something bad happened. It seemed to be a surprise to people when it occurred. "We've introduced a ranking system. Initially we've focused on the communities where there's a boil water advisory. And then we "ov...

• Windspeaker
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• Drinking Water And 'Contamination'

Eric Hood of Golder Associates Ltd. notes that municipal drinking water often doesn't meet Ontario's contaminated site cleanup standards, with potenti...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• Less Fluoride in Water Weighed

Health Canada commissioned a panel of experts in January 2007 to review the potential adverse effects of exposure to fluoride through drinking water. The panel recommended that the level of fluoride in drinking water be cut to 0.7 milligrams per litre to prevent excessive intake of the chemical. It can cause fluorosis -- an overdose of the chemical that causes tooth enamel to flake, become chalky, or in severe cases, stain black or brown. Under Manitoba's current drinking-water guidelines, fluoride levels must be within a range of 0.8 and 1.2 milligrams per litre. The maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in drinking water in Canada is 1.5 milligrams per litre. In Winnipeg, mechanical pumps feed an acidic liquid form of fluoride into drinking water. Kelly Kjartanson, manager of en...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• Spilling Drinking Water: $285,000

Is spilling drinking water an offence? Clark Builders, construction managers for a new pool building at the Royal Glenora Club in Edmonton in 2009,...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• MOE Targets Owners And Operators Of Drinking Water Systems - Prosecution Trends Under The Ontario Safe Drinking Water Act

Since 2002, the Ontario Safe Drinking Water Act, 20021 ("SDWA") has imposed responsibility for the quality of drinking water on owners and operators o...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English