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IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | August 6, 2019

"There are some proposed solutions. The Lake Winnipeg Foundation and the International Institute for Sustainable Development are proposing a chemical called ferric chloride to reduce the levels of phosphorus in Winnipeg’s north end water-treatment plant (which treats nearly 70 per cent of our city’s waste). It’s an exciting idea, but suffers from a lack of political co-operation as the city and province argue about how it will be done."

IISD-ELA in the News | CBC | August 6, 2019

"Earlier this week, research scientist Richard Grosshans and his team from the International Institute for Sustainable Development harvested 33 kilograms of duckweed they had grown in the sewage lagoon at Dunnottar, Man., a village of 760 people, 65 kilometres north of Winnipeg on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg."

IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | August 2, 2019

"The treatment plant is the single largest phosphorous emitter polluting Lake Winnipeg, according to a report by the Lake Winnipeg Foundation and the International Institute of Sustainable Development, which both recommended adding ferric chloride to its water to bind and remove phosphorous."

IISD-ELA in the News | Global Winnipeg | August 2, 2019

"IISD Director of Water Programs Dimple Roy told 680 CJOB that while weather and other environmental factors do contribute to the blooms, the city’s phosphorous is the primary cause."

IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | August 2, 2019

"In requesting the extension, the city rejected a stopgap measure suggested by the Lake Winnipeg Foundation and the International Institute of Sustainable Development, which involves adding ferric chloride at the treatment site, which has been shown in other jurisdictions to reduce phosphorus concentrations."