Municipal elections: Fondation Rivières reminds newly elected officials that they are part of the solution to the problem of wastewater spills

November 11, 2021

Press release - Seven new mayors sensitive to environmental issues have been elected in Quebec's seven largest cities. Longueuil, Saguenay, Laval, Quebec City, Gatineau, Terrebonne and Sherbrooke alone are home to half of Quebec's population, and are responsible for 42% of the total intensity of wastewater spills in Quebec, as demonstrated by the dismal 2020 wastewater spill chart.

2020 rankings, revised and corrected

November 9, 2021

Press release - We unveiled our 2020 Palmares last week and, unfortunately, a mistake was made in the manipulation of our powerful, but oh so complex, database. Our calculations in terms of spill intensity are rigorously accurate, but it's in expressing this intensity in terms of population numbers that we made the mistake.

Fondation Rivières releases the sad list of 2020 municipalities

October 27, 2021

Press release - For the second year in a row, Fondation Rivières has released a tool that lets you discover the list of municipalities that stand out in terms of the intensity of their wastewater discharges in 2020. It has also updated the interactive discharge map on its website with the new 2020 data, revealing that there were almost 53,000 wastewater discharges last year in Quebec.

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Municipal elections: Fondation Rivières reminds newly elected officials that they are part of the solution to the problem of wastewater spills

2020 rankings, revised and corrected

Fondation Rivières releases the sad list of 2020 municipalities

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