1. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
2. Appalachia Rising
   Which Side Are You On?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
3. Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
   Would You Like Sugar With That?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
4. Bakken Business
   The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
5. Blue Betrayal
   The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
6. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
7. Boreal Forests in Crisis
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1992
   Canada's assault on the Boreal forest rivals Brazil's exploitation of the Amazon. In both countries governments and multinational corporations are scheming to clear-cut forests for short-term profit. They treat rivers as sewers, poison the fish and drive aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands.
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
9. Canadian Wildlife Federation
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
11. Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
12. Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
13. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
21. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
22. Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
23. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
24. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
25. Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows daycare
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows. Daycare water had possible carcinogens above limit in 1999: Health Canada data. Chief Fobister calls on all candidates to make clean water commitments.
    
26. Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
27. Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
28. FLOW
    For Love of Water
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 2008
    A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
29. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
30. GE's PCBs: Who Will Tell the Fish
    Against The Current vol. 99
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Against prevailing scientific wisdom, an August 2001 General Electric press release declares that "there is no credible evidence that PCB exposure causes disease in people."
31. Grand Council Treaty #3 supports Grassy Narrows in their stand for mercury justice and their stand against clear cut logging
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Chiefs of Treaty #3 First Nations in assembly voted unanimously to support Grassy Narrows First Nation in their demands for mercury justice and an end to clear cut logging on their Homeland.
32. Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water. Turbidity exceeded limit by 120x, uranium and possible carcinogens found in samples.
33. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
34. Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
35. Life in Lakes and Rivers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
36. McGuinty invited to a Grassy Narrows fish fry at Queen's Park
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Today Grassy Narrows mothers are challenging Premier McGuinty to join them and their families in a traditional fish fry at Queen’s Park for a meal of their local fish cooked on an open wood fire.
37. Mercury poison: Grassy Narrows to release new report on devastating health impacts
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    50 years after dumping began governments refuse to acknowledge Minamata Disease.
38. Mercury Poisoning
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
39. MiningWatch Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
40. Muddying the waters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
41. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
42. NEB's green light for Line 9 sacrifices waterways, public health and the climate
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The National Energy Board (NEB) gave the green light to Enbridge Inc.'s contentious Line 9B pipeline on Feb 6, 2015, despite the company's failure to make necessary safety improvements. The decision means that critical safety measures will not be implement.
43. 150 years of dirty water
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
44. One latrine at a time
    Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
45. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
46. Poor West Virginia? Think Again
    Resistance in the Valley of Death
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
47. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
    
48. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
49. Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
    Why We Should All Support Their Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Dundalk is situated at the highest elevation in Ontario, the headwaters of both the Grand and Saugeen rivers, and sits on land deeded to the Six Nations through the Haldimand Proclamation of 1763. Despite the ecological importance of the region and the outstanding land claim, the municipal council and a corporation are attempting to force through a plan to build a “bio-solids” processing facility just a stone’s throw from the town.
50. Slick Water
    Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
51. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
52. Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
53. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.

Experts on Water Pollution in the Sources Directory

1. International Atomic Energy Agency