Water
What is our worst-case scenario?
China’s problematic solution to its water-security woes
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- Alberta’s oilsands tailings ponds are leaking. Now what?
- Chemical Weapons Dumped in the Ocean After World War II Could Threaten Waters Worldwide
- Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File
- Fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels’ shells
- Hypoxic dead zones found in urban streams, not just at the coast
- It will take 300 years before contaminated water is safe to discharge into sea
- Lead in the Water Supply
- Leveraging Biodegradation and Composting to Divert Waste from Landfills
- ‘My Ears Keep Ringing All the Time’: Mercury Poisoning Among Grassy Narrows First Nation
- New Charges In Flint Water Crisis, Including Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – PFAS
- Chemical Factsheets (US CDC)
- Development of a RapidTox Dashboard (US EPA)
- DuPont Offers $670M Settlement For ‘Teflon’ Chemical Contamination Of Water
- Dupont C8 Lawsuit – Injuries & Effects – Settlement & Recall
- EPA Finds Replacements for Toxic “Teflon” Chemicals Toxic
- Mark Ruffalo’s Dark Waters Calls Out PFOA: But What Is It?
- ‘Dark Waters’ and PFOA – FAQ
- Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in Drinking Water (Canada)
- PFAS exposure found to increase risk of severe Covid-19
- The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception
- Toxic Teflon Chemical, C8, Found In Tap Water in Several States
- Why you need to know about PFAS, the chemicals in pizza boxes and rainwear
- Salt sometimes comes with a pinch of microplastics
- Sask. announces $4 billion project to irrigate up to 500,000 acres
- Sask H2O
Humans: the real threat to life on Earth (From his book Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmott.) … We humans emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago. In geological time, that is really incredibly recent. Just 10,000 years ago, there were one million of us. By 1800, just over 200 years ago, there were 1 billion of us. By 1960, 50 years ago, there were 3 billion of us. There are now over 7 billion of us. By 2050, your children, or your children’s children, will be living on a planet with at least 9 billion other people. Some time towards the end of this century, there will be at least 10 billion of us. Possibly more. …..
We are going to have to triple – at least – energy production by the end of this century to meet expected demand. To meet that demand, we will need to build, roughly speaking, something like: 1,800 of the world’s largest dams, or 23,000 nuclear power stations, 14m wind turbines, 36bn solar panels, or just keep going with predominantly oil, coal and gas – and build the 36,000 new power stations that means we will need. ….
The term “climate migrants” is one we will increasingly have to get used to. Indeed, anyone who thinks that the emerging global state of affairs does not have great potential for civil and international conflict is deluding themselves. It is no coincidence that almost every scientific conference that I go to about climate change now has a new type of attendee: the military. …
….if the current global rate of reproduction continues, by the end of this century there will not be 10 billion of us – there will be 28 billion of us.
Western Canada’s glaciers may all but vanish by 2100 … The world has 200,000 glaciers, nearly a tenth of which are in British Columbia and Alberta in western Canada, where they cover an area of 27,000 square kilometres and have an average thickness of 112 metres. The glaciers in these two provinces are losing almost one per cent of their volume each year – among the fastest rates of mountain ice loss anywhere in the world. …
The big melt will increase river flows in western Canada. Clarke calculates that flows will peak between 2020 and 2040, and then begin to dwindle creating problems for hydroelectric dams….
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Canada’s Saskatchewan River system, which recently experienced its worst drought in 134 years, may be prone to more prolonged and severe droughts than previously thought, suggests a new UCLA study based on tree rings that are more than 1,000 years old….
- Between 900 and 1300, the North Saskatchewan River experienced 10 decades of the lowest flow in its history; over those 400 years, the average flow of the river was 15 percent lower than the 20th-century average.
- Between 1702 and 1725, river flows on the South Saskatchewan River were almost 20 percent below the 20th-century average.
- Between 1841 and 1859, river flows on the Saskatchewan River were at least 22 percent below the 20th-century average.
- Along the South Saskatchewan River, the early 20th century saw the highest river flows of the segments 522-year reconstruction. UCLA Newsroom: July 17, 2003
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The challenge of managing water and nutrient cycles in a mini-world – the lessons from Biosphere 2
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- Acts and Regulations of Canada
- ACM Portal for Research Findings
- Agricultural Land Resource Atlas of Alberta
- Agronomy Journal
- Alberta Water Portal
- An Assessment of Flood Risk Management in Canada
- Arsenic Filters for Groundwater
- Atlas of Canada: Freshwater
- Blue Planet Project
- Boundary Waters Treaty
- Canadian Environmental Law Association
- Canada Gazette
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- Canadian Water Network
- Canadian Water Resources Association
- Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology
- Centre for Hydrology at the U of S
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- China, Tibet, & River Heads
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- Design Guidelines for First Nations Waterworks
- Dr. Dave of Regina, Saskatchewan
- Drinking Water Inspectorate (UK)
- Drought Watch in Canada
- Engineering Toolbox for Water Systems
- Environmental and Workplace Health in Canada
- Environmental Assessments
- Environmental Assessment and Saskatchewan’s First Nations
- Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory
- Environment Canada
- Flow Measurement of Metal Mining Effluents
- Geological Society of America Position Statement
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Glacial Lake Agassiz & the Great Flood
- Global Mining and Minerals Library Online
- Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
- Great Plains Climate History
- Groundwater Age-Dating
- Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
- Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Research
- Groundwater and Its Susceptibility to Degradation
- Guide to Finding Streamflow Records (US)
- History of Drought on the Prairies
- Hydrology and Water Resources of Saskatchewan
- India Environment Portal
- International Society of Limnology
- International Society for Microbial Ecology
- International Water Policy and Legislation
- Internet Documents in Economics Access Service (IDEAS)
- Instantaneous Data Archive (USGS)
- Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities (January, 1991)
- The Lake File Index
- Law, Environment and Development Journal
- Management of Water in Canada
- Mine Tailings Treatment Technology
- National Ground Water Association (US)
- National Water Research Institute of Canada
- Natural Resources Canada Business Plans
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- NERC Open Research Archive (UK)
- New Water Politics of the Middle East
- Office of Water (US)
- On the Cause of the 1930’s Dust Bowl
- Paleoclimatology
- Pollution Probe
- POLIS Water Project
- Problems with Hepburn Groundwater
- Real Time Hydrometric Data for Canada
- Red River of the North Flooding: A Bibliography
- Safe Drinking Water Foundation of Canada
- Saskatchewan Eco Network
- Saskatchewan Environmental Society
- Saskatchewan Water and Wastewater Association
- Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
- SaskH2O
- Scientific Electronic Library Online
- Science Links Japan
- Siemens
- Spectra Solar Cube
- Surface Water and Groundwater Technology for Mining
- Sustainable Agriculture in Western Canada
- Tank Use Mishaps
- Tarsands Extraction and Water Consumption
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere (NASA)
- Treating the Public Water Supply
- Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage (UK)
- Treatment Plant Operators Essential Skills
- Tree Ring Society
- UNESCO Water Portal
- US Geological Survey
- Water Conflict Chronology
- Water Information Program
- Water Diversion, Export and Canada-US Relations
- Water Export Ban Law and NAFTA
- Water Footprint Calculator
- Water Issues Associated With Heavy Oil Production
- Water, Oil, and Gas Wells
- Water Pathogens Database
- Water Sanitation and Health (WHO)
- Water Supply and Water Resources Research
- Water Survey Canada
- WaterWeb
- WaterWired
- Waterwise (UK)
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- World of Water Treatment
- Water Research Commission of South Africa
- Water Quality Research Australia
- Water Treatment Disasters
- Water Treatment Plant Operator Program Manual
A gigantic dust cloud engulfs a ranch in Boise City, Okla., in 1935.
Dust Bowl Blues (Woodie Guthrie)
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