Prudent governance of Canada’s groundwater resources is required in the face of numerous challenges. Threats to … groundwater include rapid urbanization, recharge rates of aquifers in a changing climate, agricultural intensification and … increased contamination, among others. However, overall, Canada has yet to experience large-scale over-exploitation of …

Much of Canada lags international leaders in adopting management systems for assuring safe drinking water. Despite some … clear progress in individual provinces, Canada, and small communities in particular, need a system that better promotes and … Canada, public drinking water poses a negligible health risk. But in the wake of a series of management failures with severe …

Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … groundwater fo irrigation has resulted in increased salt conent of soils. In some locations drinking water wells (deep bore wells …