Nicole Hancock
Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony ...

Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.

Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony to heal Chedoke Creek

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Fleming College receives federal funding for multidisciplinary water monitoring and detection research

Fleming College receives federal funding for multidisciplinary water monitoring and detection research

Fleming College has been awarded a two-year, $641,800 Applied Research and Technology Partnership (ARTP) grant from the federal College and Community Innovation program. The funding was announced Tuesday (April 5), by Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and will see Fleming’s Centre for Advancement of Water and Wastewater Technologies (CAWT) located at Lindsay’s Frost Campus, work collaborative with Fleming’s Centre for Advancement in Mechatronics and Industrial Internet of Things (CAMIIT) and the Centre for Innovative Aquaculture Production (CIAP) on industry-led applied research projects to develop technologies focused on the detection, monitoring, or surveillance of contaminants, as well as other water quality parameters.

Finding answers to the world's drinking water crisis

Finding answers to the world's drinking water crisis

Without a doubt, water is the most abundant resource on Earth. After all, it covers over 70% of the planet - yet despite this we are facing a looming crisis as a species. Climate change, global conflict and overpopulation are just some of the factors that are devastating the water supply in many areas around the world. It means that two billion people - one-quarter of the human population - are without access to safe drinking water. As the world's population creeps ever closer to eight billion, attention is being focused on developing technologies that can help address this before it is too late.

Water Act contentious at environment debate

Water Act contentious at environment debate

The Water Act, passed in the P.E.I. Legislature but not yet proclaimed, was one of the more divisive issues of the first leaders debate of the provincial election campaign.
More than 250 people packed into an auditorium at UPEI to listen to the leaders discuss environmental issues, at a forum organized by Island environmental groups. 
Topics ranged from protecting soil quality, to watershed group funding, to increasing the number of protected areas on P.E.I., to promoting the Island's natural history. 

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