Senator Neufeld: What it used to be is that a canoe that could float with a certain amount of pounds in it was considered navigable.

The EU introduced minimum water quality requirements in the 1970s and has expanded its water legislation gradually over the past four decades.

Large organisations: Lafarge Cement (UK), the UK's largest cement maker commissioned independent water footprinting work for the whole life-cycle water impacts of their products. This led to better water efficiency in the cement-making process: 1.22m3 water per tonne PCE (Portland Cement Equivalent) in 2010, as opposed to 0.142m3 water per ton PCE in 2011.

Question No. 60 Mr. Bruce Hyer: With respect to the purchase and provision of single-use water bottles and water coolers by the government over the last five years: (a) (i) what are the total government expenditures for bottled water on an annual basis, as well as over a five year period, (ii) on an annual basis, what amount is spent by each department; (b) (i) with respect to the above figures, how much was spent annually, on a departmental or agency basis, in the National Capital Region, (ii) what was the breakdown by province for such services; and (c) by province, what is the number of Government of Canada employees, and the number ...[+++] of drinking water fountains that service these employees?

The aim of the scheme is to overcome water shortages in the summer period and to help protect the Eco-system from pollution from sewerage discharges.

They're an excellent system, recognized throughout the scientific community, for studying genetic variation in populations, simply because they have so much, and it's often structured river by river or system by system.