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PROJECTS l POLICY l INNOVATION
JULY/AUGUST 2024
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 4
LEGAL
08 Protecting Water Resources in Quebec
There is clear intention from Quebec’s legislators to tackle
water use and protection issues.
By Roxane Nadeau and Adina-Cristina Georgescu
WATERSHEDS
10 How Can You Love a Lake?
Watersheds Canada’s Love Your Lake program helps
protect the areas we love the most.
By Monica Seidel
INNOVATION
14 Water’s Recordkeeping Problem
Water utilities are fighting to stay on top of mountains of
paper and digital files. New technology may have a
solution.
By David Lynch
WASTEWATER
17 Nanoplastics in Wastewater
How a University of Waterloo researcher and his team
found a way to remove nanoplastics from wastewater with
94 per cent efficiency.
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By Amanda Schrack
AGRICULTURE
21 Tiny Bubbles Solving Big Problems
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Editor’s Note
Why wastewater treatment plants are choosing
nanobubbles to deal with surfactants.
Water insecurity is no longer
just a climate change issue.
FEATURE
By Treena Hein
24 Pouring New Life into Cities
First Drops
As temperatures rise, a lack of public drinking fountains is
costing cities on two fronts.
Murder in the Aeration,
Maude Barlow, wetland donation
By Mark Douglas Wessel
38 People
CMWC launches advisory
committee, WEF’s new
executive director
MINING
28 The Aftermath of a Closed Mine
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When a mine closes, there are often disagreements in what
to do with the leftover waste from tailings ponds.
By Saul Chernos
RESEARCH
32 Solving the Plastic Pollution Problem
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Three universities set out to find how and why microplastics
end up in remote lakes.
H2OPINION
34 Gen Z Engineers and Operators
A younger generation believes it can overcome divisions
and bring forward meaningful actions and solutions.
ABOUT THE COVER
As temperatures rise, municipalities
are working to make drinking water
more accessible in public spaces.
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