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The report, released July 27, 2000, found that the quality of water, due to pollution was declining. The value of the water is found in its drinking water supply, its industrial water uses, and recreation uses, as well as waste treatment, food production, nutrient cycling, erosion control, and other vital ecosystem services. The study marks the first ever assessment in Canada of the full value of a province's water resources, and pulls together vast quantities of published and unpublished information from a wide range of federal, provincial and municipal sources.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2000, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Editorial
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UNLESS Nova Scotia intends to get back to 19th-century shipbuilding prominence with another Golden Age of Sail, it can be fairly certain its non-metro population will not boom and much of the province will remain pastoral countryside, quiet rivers and lakes, and long, clean beaches.
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It's an image visitors sigh for. But how true is it, and how long will it last?
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A disturbing view of the impact of pollution on Nova Scotia is found in an ecologist's report for the non-government Genuine Progress Index Atlantic.
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Sunday July 30, 2000, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Parker Barss Donham
Counting the things that really count “
A Halifax research group reported last week that the quality of Nova Scotia's drinking water is improving even as our rivers, lakes, and wetlands are degrading.
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Yawn. A mundane, unsurprising conclusion about a resource so commonplace we all take it for granted.
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Except that the 230-page study by GPI Atlantic, first in a series of natural resource accounts the nonprofit group plans to release this year, poses a fundamental challenge to the way our society makes decisions.
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Only 20 per cent of the province's salmon rivers still contain healthy stock due to acid rain, and since 1995, the number of brook trout caught in the province has dropped in half, according to the study.
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Thursday, July 27, 2000, The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax ~ Davene Jeffrey
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The province's water resources provide benefits worth $11 billion a year to Nova Scotians. Included in those benefits are drinking water, industrial water supply, recreation, waste treatment, food production, nutrient cycling, erosion control and other vital ecosystem services, the report says.
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But the decline of the province's wetlands, rivers, lakes and coastal waters is causing hidden damage to the economy and threatens the well-being of future generations, report author Sara Wilson said Wednesday.
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July 6, 2000, The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax
Clean Harbour Worth $1.4b. Pollution control good investment...
July 2000, Journal of the Sustainable Development Institute, Washington, DC
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The province's water resources provide benefits worth $11 billion a year to Nova Scotians. Included in those benefits are drinking water, industrial water supply, recreation, waste treatment, food production, nutrient cycling, erosion control and other vital ecosystem services, the report says.
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But the decline of the province's wetlands, rivers, lakes and coastal waters is causing hidden damage to the economy and threatens the well-being of future generations, report author Sara Wilson said Wednesday.
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March 30, 2000, The Chronicle Herald, Halifax ~ Susan Leblanc
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The World Health Organization has said there is an obesity epidemic worldwide, Nova Scotia is no exception.
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About 38 per cent of Nova Scotia adults over 20 are obese. The number of obese adults doubled between 1985 and 1997.
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That places Nova Scotia second in the country
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March 29, 2000, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Shaune MacKinlay
Costs to health-care system pegged at between $120-260m “
Record-high obesity is taking a lot more than a pound of flesh from Nova Scotia, according to figures released yesterday.
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Feb 24, 2000, The Chronicle Herald & Mail Star ~ Davene Jeffrey
Nova Scotians have more heart. “ A report released Wednesday shows that Bluenoses devote 43 per cent more of their time to helping others than the national average. ”
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