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US AND MEXICO AGREE TO LONG-TERM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLAN IN THE SAN DIEGO-TIJUANA REGION
The governments of Mexico and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to fund and expedite several wastewater treatment projects in the Tijuana River basin.
Avery Schmitz, José Álvarez, CNN

CrimeBox
Clean Water Act Conviction : Fiscal Year 2014; Case ID# CR_2568 (Connecticut)
Ben & Jerry's manufacturer sentenced to $4.5 million in fines and restitution for deliberate dumping URL:

SUMMER 2025 IN NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR: DROUGHT, WILDFIRES, DRY WELLS...YOU NAME IT
 Atlantic Canada is not typically considered prone to drought, as it is usually a very wet region, but recent years, including 2025, have seen severe drought conditions due to below-normal precipitation.

WORLD WATER WEEK August 25- 28
World Water Week’s 2025 theme is ‘Water for Climate Action’. The Week will focus on addressing the linked emergencies of climate change, environment degradation and biodiversity loss
NY HAB TRACKER
from NYS DEC and NOAA-NCCOS satellite monitoring program
 Brooklyn and Bronx going green to fight HABs

CRIMEBOX
Clean Water Act Historical Conviction: Fiscal Year 2010; Case ID# CR_1967 (Georgia)
City of Harlem Public Works Director sentenced to prison for illegal discharge and false statements

Climate Files
Interview with Dennis Fotinos, Founder Noventa Energy Partners
Developing District Energy with private equity, developer incentives and marketing
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
  • IN 1912 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BECAME A PIONEER OF DISTRICT ENGERGY (DE), ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL STEAM GENERATION PLANT
  • IN 2012, BROOKFIELD PURCHASED THE PROJECT FOR $480 MILLION
  • BY 2021, THE VALUATION OF TORONTO'S RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT HAD GROWN TO $4.1 BILLION
This story is about how Toronto "turned a money-losing steam business into the largest district energy company in North America". The path to the project's success is sprinkled with allegations of corruption, public-private jockeying, and concerns about transparency and public accountability.

Top Innovator

UNLOCKING UNTAPPED CRITICAL MINERALS WITHOUT HARMING SOIL, WATER, COMMUNITIES
Paris, France biotech start-up Genomines uses gene-edited plants to naturally mine nickel

DROUGHT IS SPREADING ACROSS CANADA
71% of the country is classified as abnormally dry while 7 communities in the prairies are at extreme drought levels

Desserto ®update
SCIENCE FOR SALE BEHIND THE LEATHER CURTAIN DESSERTO® Team responds to the leather lobby

Climate Files
FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK PATH TO NET ZERO
$65 million project makes RY the largest heritage building retrofit in North America
CLIMATE FILES
South Ocean current reverses for the first time in history
 Have we reached a catastrophic tipping point?

Uplink Top Innovator
CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR, CLEAN ENERGY—TURNING POLLUTION INTO RESOURCES
 NY based climate technology start-up Airbuild transforms buildings, landscapes, and industrial spaces while addressing critical environmental challenges of water contamination and energy inefficiency
CRIMEBOX
Clean Water Act Historical Conviction : Fiscal Year 2012; Case ID# CR_1219 (Georgia)
Harshest sentence imposed on GA company, $3.8 million fine

A GLOBAL NETWORK OF MAYORS UNITED IN ACTION TO CONFRONT THE CLIMATE CRISIS
 Tried-and-true solutions to climate breakdown created by C40 Cities – An interview with former Toronto Mayor and C40 Cities Managing Director, David Miller


FIRST NATION LONG-TERM DRINKING WATER ADVISORIES –July 11, 2025 
Overview: There are 38 long-term water advisories in Canada not including BC: 

1 in At, 26 in ON, 5 in MB, 6 in SK. First Nation Health Authority (FNHA) reports 26 in BC.

FIRST NATION SHORT-TERM DRINKING WATER ADVISORIES – July 22, 2025
Overview: There are 36 short-term water advisories in Canada - down from 38 on July 15 - not including BC: 2 in Atlantic, 1 in QC, 13 in Ontario, 4 in MB, 10 in SK, 6 in AB. First Nation Health Authority (FNHA) reports 9 in BC.
WATER STORAGE IN DAMS HAS CAUSED MINUTE SHIFTS IN EARTH’S POLES
Harvard University study in Geophysical Research Letters finds the construction of nearly 7,000 dams from 1835 to 2011 shifted the poles about a meter (3 feet) in total and caused a 21-millimeter (0.83-inch) drop in global sea levels. Together, these dams hold enough water to fill the Grand Canyon twice.

CLARITY THROUGH CHAOS
 Cleantech Group shares perspectives on how the first half of 2025 has panned out against original expectations in January, and what to look out for moving forward

CRIMEBOX
Clean Water Act Conviction :  Fiscal Year 2013; Case ID# CR_2405 (Arizona)
Wastewater Facility supervisor convicted for inaccurate discharge reporting
TECH COLLABORATION TO STRENGTHEN EARLY WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION
Ottawa based Kongsberg Geospatialsigns MOU with B.C. based FireSwarmSolutions to integrate real-time situational awareness with autonomous drone swarm technology, creating a powerful joint capability for wildfire suppression, defense logistics, and disaster response.
CRIMEBOX
Clean Water Act Historical Conviction :  Fiscal Year 2015; Case ID# CR_2728 (Alabama)
That's not supposed to happen! Heavy equipment operator pushes debris into Mobile River
CrimeBox
Clean Water Act Conviction :  Fiscal Year 2015; Case ID# CR_2728 (Alabama)
That's not supposed to happen! Heavy equipment operator pushes debris into Mobile River
Safe Drinking Water
Interview with the Grandfilter
Inventor of inventors, Dr. Evan Koslow mastered nuclear, biological, chemical defense filtration before delivering third generation countertop drinking water filtration

A 21ST CENTURY GUIDE TO AVOIDING WASTEWATER DISASTER
Cleantech Group takes a global inventory of wastewater treatment inadequacy with a view to future innovation

INNOVATIVE DEVICE TAPS WATER FROM AIR
 MIT Researchers have created a high-tech "bubble wrap" capable of collecting safe drinking water directly from the air — even in Death Valley, the driest desert in North America.

THE COST OF REASONING
The more accurate the AI models, the bigger the carbon footprint according to new research out of Münich University

NASA’S MARS ROVER STARTS UNRAVELING THE HISTORY OF WATER ON THE RED PLANET
NASA’s Curiosity captures first close-up photos of web-like features known as ‘boxwork’suggesting a history of water on Mars
CRIMEBOX
Clean Water Act Conviction :  Fiscal Year 2015; Case ID# CR_2712 (Alaska)
Oops, they did it again! While on probation for a deliberate oil spill, crew dumps oily water into the Bering Sea
TOXIC ALGAE ARE BACK EARLY!
NY HAB Tracker
 from NYS DEC and NOAA-NCCOS satellite monitoring program
 Allegheny Reservoir, Alcove, Basic Creek Reservoirs HABs

UPDATE

COLDPLAY TO RE-RELEASE ALBUMS ON ECORECORDS MADE OF PLASTIC

Continuing their sustainability mission, Coldplay are re-releasing all of their albums as clear 140g EcoRecords made from recycled plastic bottles

NEW EVIDENCE ON THE SEVERITY OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
Study led by the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory, US-based NOAA, & OSU (Oregon State University) finds threat to global marine ecosystems worse than previously thought

Update: Dogs Pinpointing Water Leaks
WATER LOSS COST SAVINGS HAS GONE TO THE DOGS AGAIN
Scottish Water has been deploying a team of specially trained dogs to help locate water main leaks in difficult to access rural areas where the water does not always show on the surface.

Settlements and Stalemates: TRIBAL LEADERS STEER THE COLORADO RIVER CONVERSATION
By Amanda Pampuro - Courthouse News Service
Forty million people living in the southwest U.S. and Mexico depend on the Colorado River, including 30 Native American tribes, which were excluded from negotiations when the Colorado River Compact was signed in 1922.

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WORLD OCEAN DAY JUNE 8, 2025, CHARTS A COURSE FOR THE YEAR AHEAD

This year’s World Oceans Day theme, Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us, highlights the balance between appreciating the ocean’s beauty and recognizing its fragility.

WHO WINS WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN?
Latest research on advanced chip packaging innovation in the critical shift toward efficient semiconductor design unlocks energy, cost, and performance gains for AI and data centers


Climate Files
The Greenland ice sheet is melting
 Trancend-ice - A hundred thousand years of history in your glass as Arctic Ice makes a profitable venture of climate adaptation
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS: WHERE DOES ALL THE WATER GO?
“The Coke factory.”
By Ann Deslandes - Mexico Daily News - With permission

NFB FEATURE INCANDESCENCE NOW STREAMING
Exploring our relationship to fire in the context of increasing megafires due to climate change

COULD PENGUINS IN ANTARCTICA BE MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS?
Ammonia gas from bird feces sets off a reaction that may buffer local effects of climate change according to recent University of Helsinki study
NY HAB Tracker
 from NYS DEC and NOAA-NCCOS satellite monitoring program
 Roaring Brook Lake logs the first HABS of the 2025 season three months earlier than last year

DRONES DELIVERING WATER AND EQUIPMENT TO WILDFIRES DIRECTLY

B.C. start-up FireSwarm Solutions™; fills critical gaps by flying safely at night, in low visibility, and in conditions unsafe for pilots

WT ARCHIVES -2017 Renewable energy
$2.4 MILLION WIND TURBINE PROJECT IN 2018 FOR KLUANE FIRST NATION, YUKON TERRITORY
WT ARCHIVES - 2017 Carbon Capture
TURNING CANADA INTO THE WORLD'S CARBON CAPTURE CAPITAL
WT Archives 2019
Drones
MAKING MOVIES WITH DRONES IN CANADA
WT ARCHIVES - 2016
Subsea Exploration
 GOOGLE'S SCHMIDT & AVATAR'S CAMERON USE ADAM'S CAMERAS FOR THEIR DEEPSEA SHOOTS: MEET ADAM
Drones - WT Archives 2019
 DRONES: ARCTIC SEARCH AND RESCUE
Canada is unique among the circumpolar nations, with dozens of channels and inlets to monitor, increasingly subject to dynamic ice conditions.
WT Archives - 2019\
Drones
 DRONES AND AGRICULTURE, 101 WAYS

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