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January 22, 2007 | EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.

Water and Wastewater Treatment in Canada: Tapping into Private-Sector Capital, Expertise, and Efficiencies

Canada's water and wastewater utilities are facing severe challenges. Hundreds of systems threaten human health and the environment. Boil-water advisories are common in small communities. Wastewater treatment is frequently substandard. The federal government has identified wastewater effluents as one of the largest threats to the quality of Canadian waters.

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Elizabeth Brubaker

Elizabeth Brubaker is the executive director of Environment Probe, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. She is the
author of Property Rights in the Defence of Nature, published in 1995 by Earthscan, and contributed a chapter on the environmental implications of establishing property rights in fish to Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fisheries Management on the Atlantic Coast. Ms Brubaker has written on a broad range of environmental issues including water quality, water pricing, and the siting of controversial facilities.
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