Insights and Stories on Water

Don’t fear Alberta’s Water Act, says water expert

Jun. 14, 2024 at 10:15 am CDT

Alberta river and reservoir levels remain lower than normal and water availability continues to worry irrigators. Will there be enough water to go around? What happens if there isn’t? Answers can be found in the province’s current Water Act, passed in 1999, which contains the same “first in time, first […]

Farmers, oil drillers in parched Alberta brace for water shortage

Mar. 18, 2024 at 9:48 am CDT

By Nia Williams Reuters Rod Nickel

NASA to conduct first global water survey from space

Dec. 13, 2022 at 6:27 pm CST

By Steve Gorman

Wastewater regulation eased for Nova Scotia on-farm processing

May. 25, 2022 at 7:20 pm CDT

By Liam O’Connor

Some B.C. milk runs resume as roads reopen

Nov. 23, 2021 at 7:20 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Oct. 15, 2021 at 8:03 pm CDT

Reuters –– The Canadian city of Iqaluit said lab results confirmed that fuel had entered its water supply, officials announced Friday. Analysis of samples from one of the city’s water tanks found “exceedingly high levels of various fuel components,” Amy Elgersma, Iqaluit’s chief administrative officer, said, adding it was likely […]

By Moira Warburton

India unveils new rice variety to reduce water use, labour

Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:40 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an array of new high-yielding crop varieties, including herbicide-tolerant rice that can be directly sown into the soil, cutting expenditure on water and farm workers. In India, the world’s biggest rice exporter, the conventional method of rice […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

Haitians grow impatient for quake aid as hungry crowd gathers

Aug. 18, 2021 at 2:18 pm CDT

Les Cayes, Haiti | Reuters — A hungry crowd gathered outside an airport in southern Haiti on Wednesday as people left homeless by an earthquake that killed some 2,000 people voiced anger that government aid was slow to arrive five days after the disaster, leaving many without food and water. […]

By Laura Gottesdiener

Feds lock in AgriRecovery funds before election call

Aug. 15, 2021 at 10:18 pm CDT

Just hours ahead of a federal election call, the federal government has committed $500 million to cover its share of federal/provincial AgriRecovery support plans for drought-hit farmers across Canada’s West. Shortly before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit Sunday to Rideau Hall seeking the dissolution of Parliament for a federal election, […]

By Dave Bedard

‘Time is ticking’ on drought response for beef cattle sector

Jul. 20, 2021 at 6:55 pm CDT

As Canada’s beef farmers and ranchers face drought, industry leaders are trying to find ways to secure feed and help those forced to sell rebuild their herds. B.C. ranchers are dealing with high temperatures that have “parched the grass that was there,” Kevin Boone, general manager of B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, […]

By Lisa Guenther

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