Lake Forest Park Water District is battling King County over “how to protect an aquifer from tunneling for the huge Brightwater sewage treatment project.”

The Harper government is planning to spend billions on sewage treatment and cleanup over a seven year period. “Too much raw effluent flows into waterways,” Environment Minister John Baird says.

Cruise ships carrying 750,000 passengers visiting Seattle each year produce 35 tons of sludge from sewage each day. This waste is currently dumped directly into the water but could be treated by King County’s Renton sewage-treatment plant.

Last year China dumped a record 30.5 billion tonnes of sewage and industrial waste into the Yangtze river.

CTV Ottawa

Environment Canada is launching its own investigation into a massive spill that dumped nearly one million cubic metres of sewage into the Ottawa River over a period of 15 days in the summer of 2006.

CBC News

The federal government is willing to contribute a third of the cost of upgrading Ottawa’s sewage system so it no longer dumps raw sewage into the Ottawa River during storms, said Environment Minister John Baird.