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Waste Water Management

Rain gardens soak up urban stormwater pollution

February 17, 2006

Properly designed “rain gardens” can effectively trap and retain up to 99 percent of common pollutants in urban storm runoff, potentially improving water quality and promoting the conversion of some pollutants into less harmful compounds. This is according to new research scheduled for publication in the February 15, 2006 issue of the American Chemical Society journal, “Environmental Science and Technology”. The affordable, easy-to-design gardens could help solve one of the nation’s most pressing pollution problems.

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Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA)

January 10, 2006

The Grand River Conservation Authority is a corporate body established to enable municipalities to jointly undertake water and natural resource management on a watershed basis – for the benefit of all.

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Living Technologies Ltd. (LTL)

January 10, 2006

LTL designs and builds ecological wastewater treatment systems in co-operation with various partner organisations. We work with three main types of Ecological Treatment Systems: Lake Restorers, Eco-Restorers, and Reedbeds.

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Center for Watershed Protection (CWP)

January 10, 2006

Founded in 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection is a non-profit corporation that provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the nation’s most precious natural resources: our streams, lakes and rivers. The Center has developed and disseminated a multi-disciplinary strategy to watershed protection that encompasses watershed planning, watershed restoration, stormwater management, watershed research, better site design, education and outreach, and watershed training.

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DHI Water & Environment

January 10, 2006

DHI Water & Environment is an independent, international consulting and research organisation approved as an authorised Technological Service Institute by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

January 10, 2006

Our goal is to enable users to locate and obtain access to Earth science data sets and services relevant to the global change and Earth science research. The GCMD database holds more than 15,000 descriptions of Earth science data sets and services covering all aspects of Earth and environmental sciences.

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InfraGuide: Innovations and Best Practices

January 10, 2006

InfraGuide works collaboratively to create a network advantage within the broad infrastructure community, and to develop and disseminate best practices and tools that encourage innovation to support sustainable municipal infrastructure decisions and actions that protect and enhance the quality of life of Canadians.

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Government of Canada: Green Government

January 10, 2006

Welcome to greeninggovernment.gc.ca, the Web site to learn information on the Government of Canada's effort to green its own operations and to share knowledge on sustainable development in government operations.

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Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD): Buildsmart

January 10, 2006

To help us develop our region in a way that lets us achieve economic prosperity, environmental health and community well-being, Buildsmart provides a resource for the design and construction industry, helping you make smart, sustainable choices when crafting the future of our constructed environment.

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CWWA: Legislative Database Applicable for Centralized Systems

January 10, 2006

This website serves to provide users with a starting point to identifying the legislative and non-legislated tools available in the management of water and wastewater in Canada from centralized, largely municipal facilities.

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