Contest to Declare Quebec’s Best Municipal Water for 2014

Ottawa, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/20/2014 -- "Best Quebec Water 2014" is the first drinking water contest being held in Quebec to declare the province's best municipal water for the year 2014. The panel of judges will rate the drinking water based on taste, odor and clarity. Participants of the water workshops held in conjunction with the contest can also vote for their favorite drinking water in the "Public Choice" Category.

The Concours de la meilleure eau municipale du Quebec 2014 s organized by Reseau Environnement, the Quebec chapter of The American Water Works Association (AWWA. It takes place in Quebec City on October 9th and 10th, 2014.

Francois Gagnon, Director General of the town of Franklin, QC is among the municipalities who have submitted water samples to the contest . "Our municipal water is of superior quality", he says.

Other municipalities participating in the contest include Lac Megantic, a town struck by tragedy last summer when a train loaded with crude oil derailed and exploded, killing 47 people and destroying several buildings.

"We changed our water source from surface to groundwater recently and are looking to restore our residents' confidence in their tap water, in the wake of last year's tragedy," says the town's Director of Environment Services, Robert Mercier.

The winning municipality in this contest is eligible to move onto the international competition held by AWWA in June 2015. The contest's panel of judges includes a sommelier of some repute, a VP of AWWA and CEO of a Canadian Corporation, and other prestigious volunteers.

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Ottawa, ON -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/29/2014 -- The Water Chronicles is pleased to introduce the 10-minute audio interview series. Our first installment features Chief Erwin Redsky of the Shoal 40 First Nation in Ontario.

Got 10 minutes to spare? Listen to the audio or read the transcription, neither will take more than 10 minutes of your time. Find out why the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has lived in isolation for the last 100 years; and been under Boil water advisory for the last 18 years.

The 10-minute interview format is based on phone interviews, Windows Media encoding and fiverr.com transcription. Its aim is to give you quick, punctual and easy-to-access information on a range of water topics.

Along with daily boil water advisory updates, the Water Chronicles features daily briefs on water advisories and the towns and people they affect; in-depth articles on topics ranging from municipal drinking water, First Nations Water, the Arctic, climate change, the water/energy nexus and industrial contamination; as well as investigative reports and interviews with experts.

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Ottawa, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/14/2014 -- On July 14, all residents of the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD), including Duncan and Lady Smith, were asked to comply with stage 2 water restrictions, due to concerns over low snow pack, low rainfall and a projected dry summer.

According to a June 15 bulletin put out by British Columbia's Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, "stream flows have dropped to below or well-below normal levels (20-80%) on Vancouver Island, and watersheds are particularly vulnerable to low flows from hot and dry summer weather, because of the low snow packs this year."

In fact, if we understand it correctly, data from the related Snow Survey put out by the Ministry indicates that the snow water equivalent for Wolf River and Jump Creek are at 0% and 1% of their normal.

"That is how I would read that as well although I am not an expert on this. I do know they are already transporting fish to help them get to the spawning grounds." says Sybille Sanderson, CVRD, Public Safety Division in an email to the Water Chronicles.

Although water restrictions are nothing new to British Columbians, stage 2 restrictions are. Watering is only allowed two days a week between certain hours, depending on your address, under stage 2 restrictions.

"It is unusual", says Louise Knodel-Joy, Senior Engineering Technologist, CVRD. "All the local communities decided to team up and issue these precautionary measures because the water levels are particularly low this year"

Over at the city of Duncan, Director of Public Works Abbas Farahbakhsh says "I have been here for six years and we've never gone to stage 2. I've been told that the water levels in Cowichan Lake are at their lowest in years".

The restrictions affect about 14,000 people.

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