[All] Canadian Water Network

Mon Mar 9 01:22:17 EDT 2015

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone done any research on the impact of chloramine on water?  Bob Vrbanac had an article in the Kitchener Post about this.  I did some research and it is apparently used to make water stay safer longer and is used in combination with chlorine. It is seems to me in what I am reading  that it has a corrosive effect on gaskets and pipes. It is also not a “free chlorine” therefore can result in more undissolved metals.

I feel that this may be one of the additional contributing factors to the many water main breaks that we are having. It is interesting to me that we are not seeing sanitary sewers breaking which are often at the same level as the water mains ( not the same trench I would hope). But it would make sense that they are not breaking because they would not have the amount of chloramine running through them.

If my conclusions sound off base or out there please let me know. 

Thanks for whatever anyone can input. 

Yvonne Fernandes

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From: bob burt
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎March‎ ‎08‎, ‎2015 ‎6‎:‎51‎ ‎PM
To: Susan Koswan
Cc: GREN2

Hi Susan...There have been a number of stories in The Record over a
number of years about prescription drugs, particularly birth control
pills getting through sewage treatment plants.
As a consequence male fish have been found with female traits.
The region has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on sewage
treatment over the last decade or so, and that no doubt, has had a
positive effect on water quality in the Grand, but it always seemed to
me that whatever improvements were made to the STPs, it was only
enough to play catch up and never enough to get ahead the impact of a
growing population.

I remember writing stories 10 or 12 years ago about a part of the
river at Blair, downstream from the Kitchener STP that was considered
toxic to fish. Improvements to Kitchener's plant were expected to
improve that situation, but I don't know what the situation would be
now.
Sandra Cooke at the GRCA headed up studies about that,but the
authority was always unwilling to release too much information back
then.

Not sure, but I think you might access Mark's work if you did a search.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com> wrote:
> Thank you Tony,
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> I keep going back to thinking that our work needs to focus on closing the
> gap between government and academia/research and widening the gap between
> academia/research and corporate/private/foundation money. My fundraising
> work in not-for-profits was far too often swerved to meet the
> parameters/needs/goals of the funding body rather than to serve the needs
> and meet the mandate of the not-for-profit agency. It’s been many years, but
> I expect it has got worse rather than better. Academia should serve “the
> people”.
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> I just keep struggling to find what the keystone or catalyst is that is
> central to creating the cascade of positive changes we’d like to see happen.
> It starts with removing Harper, but the core is still rotten...
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> Susan K
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> From: Tony Maas [mailto:tony at maas-strategies.com]
> Sent: March-08-15 2:02 PM
> To: Susan Koswan
> Cc: GREN
> Subject: Re: [All] Canadian Water Network
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> I have had plenty of dealings - am currently working on a contract for them.
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> Suggest you reach out to Dr. Mark Servos if you are interested in
> understanding what CWN researchers are doing on the Grand. He is a busy guy
> but I imagine he’d be willing to speak to GREN. Note that CWN is a national
> network, so they have projects in place across the country.
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> Tony
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> On Mar 8, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com> wrote:
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> Hi GRENers,
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> Has anyone ever had any dealings with the Canadian Water Network?
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> http://www.cwn-rce.ca/index.php/
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> Met up with some acquaintances last night (mostly health-related
> professions) and they were talking about the terrible things that are in the
> Grand River – artificial sweeteners and oestrogen in particular. With such a
> vast number of water professionals in our neck of the woods, you’d think the
> Grand and our acquifers would be pristine and state of the art. Instead, we
> still have toxic sediments and the residuals of Crompton etc fouling the
> system, a water-treatment system that can do nothing for chemical pollutants
> and an aged wastewater treatment system that cannot handle chemical
> pollutants and seriously needs to be upgraded (although I understand that is
> in the works).
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> Perhaps the conversation is happening and work is being done between the
> researchers and our decision makers and I just don’t know about it, but if
> it isn’t, should it be a high priority for GREN to be a conduit for that
> conversation?
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> I don’t feel like buying an RO system...
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> Thanks,
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> Susan K
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