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Category: Our Watershed News
Impact Through Understanding: Municipal Workshops for 2011
Join us on May 12 at Georgian Downs in Innisfil or May 13 at the Highwayman Inn in Orillia for an informative morning dedicated to understanding and discussing the implications of Source Water Protection. Source Water Protection Planning comes out of the recommendations made in the wake of the Walkerton Inquiry – where local groups […]
Money Available for Landowners to Protect Drinking Water
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Newmarket, ON – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program (ODWSP) is a $28 million four-year commitment from the Provincial Government to help landowners, businesses and municipalities fund projects aimed at protecting sources of municipal drinking water. 2011 marks the introduction of the second phase of the program, Early […]
Another Chance to Have a Say
Another Chance to Have a Say in Protecting Drinking Water in Your Community Friday, October 22, 2010 Newmarket, ON – Another chance is available to have your say on a report produced by the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Committee. The science-based Proposed Assessment Report will be used by the committee to develop […]
Have a Say in Protecting Drinking Water in Your Community
Friday, September 3, 2010 Newmarket – The South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe (SGBLS) Source Protection Committee is a group of citizens representing general public, municipal, business and other interest groups from across the Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching, Black-River, Nottawasaga, and Severn Sound Source Protection Areas. The committee is charged with creating Assessment Reports which identify […]
Your business can reduce pollution and protect drinking water
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 NEWMARKET – Waste can be costly to businesses – both to the bottom-line and the environment. Businesses now have a free opportunity to learn how to reduce the costs and legal responsibility of not managing and storing hazardous wastes properly. Through the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program, businesses located in close […]
Drinking water protection is now a click away
Thursday, June 17, 2010 NEWMARKET – The South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Region has launched a new interactive map to help residents see if they qualify for money to protect sources of drinking water. Since 2007, the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program, through the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Region, has […]
Source Water Protection Appears on Rogers TV
Rogers “Daytime” hosts Jacqueline Betterton and and Jeff Moore interview Susan Jagminas, Communications Specialist, along with partner Aileen Barclay, from York Region’s Water for Tomorrow program.
Studies Indicate Potential Water Quantity Stress
May 26, 2009 NEWMARKET – Lynn Dollin, Chair of the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe (SGBLS) Source Protection Committee, has announced the release of the first two reports in a series on the quantitative health of the region’s water supplies. The two reports, entitled “Tier 1 Water Budget” and “Water Quantity Stress Assessment” compare simple […]
Threats to water are being mapped
Thursday, March 18, 2010 NEWMARKET – The South Georgian Bay LakeThreats to water are being mapped Simcoe Source Protection Committee is preparing a report which will identify threats to municipal drinking water in the region. With World Water Day next week, and the speech from the throne underscoring Ontario’s commitment to clean water, the South […]
Province invests $3.2 million for source water protection
Province invests $3.2 million for source water protection in the South Georgian Bay – Lake Simcoe Source Protection Region April 15, 2008 The recent announcement by the Province to invest another $23 million toward protecting sources of drinking water means just over $3.2 million to the region surrounding Lake Simcoe. The funding was given to […]