Bob Sandford comments on the importance of UNU-INWEH Global Water Bankruptcy report.

Tom Axworthy reports on the one of the greatest climate and water threats to Canada: fire, and how Canada must differ from the US and prevent backsliding.

Water expert and FLOW member Bob Sandford discusses the wildfires that devasted Banff, how water and fire are intrinsically related, and what we can do to prepare.

Michael Miltenberger on ‘the Alberta water ploy’

Read more at: https://yellowknifer.com/2025/12/02/michael-miltenberger-on-the-alberta-water-ploy/

The newly formed agency offers Ottawa a tool to deliver, but it must be empowered with a clear mandate and the resources to match.

Water systems aren’t just environmental resources. They’re critical infrastructure and prime security targets.

Canada hasn't yet declared water a matter of national security, but the urgency is clear, write FLOW experts Ralph Pentland, Soula Chronopoulos, J. Michael Miltenberger, Robert Sandford and Ted Yuzyk

FLOW Director takes part in the first Youth Water Strategy at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

The Canada Water Agency faces budget cuts in Carney’s 2025 Fall budget.

Water security is national security. Let’s not wait for the next drought, the next border dispute, or the next global crisis to prove the point. Guest post by AquaAction.

Bob sandford outlines and explais the hard lessons to learn from the devastating Jasper wildfires.

Fresh water has always been key to making summer memories with friends and family, but it is also how most people will feel the impacts of climate change.

While the government has shown commitment to improving water quality by investing $1.8 billion to improve on-reserve water infrastructure, leading to a 45% reduction in long-term drinking water advisories, this effort has not addressed the removal of emerging water contaminants from drinking water and wastewater. Following the US EPA legally enforceable standards for PFAS in drinking water, there is a need for a more ambitious effort from the Canadian government to update our drinking water guidelines to include emerging contaminants even beyond PFAS and to consider legally enforceable standards across provinces and territories. 

Living Lakes Canada undertook a four-year lake study from 2019-2023 to understand how lake foreshores in the B.C. Columbia Basin region are changing due to urbanization and development.

We need national co-ordination, new investment and novel technologies applied to the prediction of floods, water quality and droughts, and identification of risk to properties and infrastructure, write John Pomeroy, Bob Sandford and Thomas Axworthy.

Excerpt from POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project – Lightning Explainer Series

An American threat assessment identified global water security and climate-related disasters like drought as an increasing risk to its national security interests, and Canada needs to catch up, says AquaAction's Soula Chronopoulos.

Imagine: Water for new housing pitted against water to grow food. Water for salmon versus water for livestock. But conflict over water access is not inevitable in B.C.