Water
Promoting health through safe drinking and recreational water, including small drinking water systems.

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Water, Drinking Water
Boil water advisories are issued when water testing detects higher than accepted amounts of microbial indicators or when there are deficiencies with water treatment. The fear of not issuing a boil…
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Drinking Water, Water
Update on the NCCPH Small Drinking Water Systems Project
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Contaminants and Hazards, Water
Fecal pollution in recreational and drinking source waters can result in outbreaks leading to the transmission of disease. Information on the sources of fecal pollution is important because the level…
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Water
Despite the future uncertainty of climate change, emerging contaminants, regulatory changes and unforeseen challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, operational decisions in water, wastewater and…
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Contaminants and Hazards, Drinking Water, Water
Changes to Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines
Over the past year there have been nine new consultations and announcement of eleven new or updated Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines. Keeping up with…
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Water
This is the second webinar in a 2-part series; the first webinar will be held earlier on the same day.
Across the globe, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 has surged since…
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Drinking Water, Water
Information about Canadian drinking water systems and past water-borne disease outbreaks is incomplete and non-standardized. Standard definitions and coordinated surveillance systems for water-borne…
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While boiling water is an effective way to kill most microbial pathogens, research performed in the United Kingdom has shown that people do not necessarily comply with boil water advisories.…
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Climate Change, Drinking Water, Recreational Water, Water
World Water Day 2020 is about water and climate change – and how the two are inextricably linked.
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