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  I would like to welcome the County of Lethbridge as the newest member of AbWARN.  As our membership grows we can more effectively draw from the knowledge and resources of each other and have a more resilient water sector.  Welcome!

On January 14, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-005 to bring attention to multiple critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe categorizes this as a critical update. CCIRC recommends that […]

Further to Daily Infrastructure Report DIR10-008, later on January 12, CTV reported that the flood danger appeared to have passed for communities on Vancouver Island hit by a rain and melting snow. The B.C. River Forecast Centre downgraded the flood warnings for the Courtenay, Comox, Nanaimo and Campbell River areas to high streamflow advisories. The […]

On January 13, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-004 to bring attention to a critical patch update for Oracle products. The vendor “strongly recommends that customers apply CPU fixes as soon as possible” due to the threat posed by a successful attack. CCIRC recommends that administrators identify affected products, […]

CTV reported that the Mayor of Courtenay, B.C., declared a state of emergency late on January 11 due to flooding of the Browns, Tsolum and Puntledge rivers on Vancouver Island. The area was pounded with heavy rains on January 11 from a tropical weather system originating from Hawaii that hit Canada’s west coast. A total […]

On January 12, the Government of Canada, the Government of New Brunswick and the City of Fredericton announced that the water and wastewater systems in Fredericton will receive $1.4 million in upgrades through a federal-provincial-city project. The Government of Canada is contributing $470,601 under the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, with matching contributions from the province and […]

I have been receiving phone calls regarding the recent distribution of the Water and Wastewater Sector Pandemic Influenza Planning Guidelines, Alberta document.  In the guidelines it mentions assessing the capability of your mutual aid partnerships and sites AbWARN as an example.  Remember that while there is no cost to join AbWARN, and it is an […]

On January 5, the Government of Quebec announced a joint investment of $4,822,502 for drinking water infrastructure in the municipality of Sainte-Sabine, Quebec. The Municipality of Sainte-Sabine will add an additional $2,777,498 to the project for a total investment of $7,600,000.
Source article -  Government of Quebec, January 5, 2010