Water Canada

• November 7-8, 2012: CIPHEX West
  Vancouver, BC Website: Click here. Sustainability, innovation and new technology will be the focus of the 2012 edition of the CIPHEX West trade show when it takes place in Vancouver.  The largest event in Western Canada for plumbing, HVACR and water treatment, CIPHEX West will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre.  More than 200 [...]
• March 22-24, 2012: CMX CIPHEX
  Toronto, ON Website: Click here. CMX CIPHEX is Canada’s national trade show and learning forum for heating (forced air and hydronics), air conditioning, ventilation, hearth, plumbing, piping, refrigeration and emerging technologies. More than 500 exhibitors from Canada, the U.S. Europe and Asia will be displaying thousands of products when the show takes place at the [...]
• Silencing Science
  Canada is home to extremely bright minds doing excellent, groundbreaking scientific work in water. Back in September, Bob Sandford praised Canada’s federal scientists in his blog post about threats of budget cuts to Environment Canada. Despite huge cuts to the department in the 1990s, he wrote, Environment Canada researchers still managed to produce two of [...]

WATER.ORG

• Conference Call: March
  Hear about India and World Water Day
• A toilet eases family burdens
  Managing without a toilet is humiliating to say the least, but for people living with disabilities, it brings a whole other cascade of problems. Now, one courageous Indian family has improved their situation. Their new household toilet brings dignity and health.
• Loan buys family time
  With the encouragement of a local self-help group, Mrs. Laxmi has gained the confidence to take out a loan for a water tap at her home. Little did she know how much her whole family would benefit.

Circle of Blue | Reporting the Global Water Crisis

• Global Perspectives: How Dry Weather in Argentina Could Affect Chicken Prices in Chicago
  A South American drought keeps global grain reserves tight, but it could mean good things for North American corn producers.
• The Stream, February 22: Africa’s Food Security
  Water Quality Environmental degradation, including waste water discharge that is harming fisheries, is the greatest threat to food security in Africa, Xinhua reported. Proposed regulations for ballast water discharge in the Great Lakes will not do enough to stop invasive species, according to environmental groups, Reuters reported. The groups want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]
• The Stream, February 21: Drought Declared in South-East England
  Droughts Southeast England is officially in a state of drought, the Press Association reported, citing the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Guardian has mapped out the affected regions. As rivers and reservoirs in England and Wales are running low after two dry winters, water industry executives have again called for regulatory reforms [...]