Recently graduated in environmental biogeoscience, Marie Doiron-Proulx looked at the causes of contamination of the Riverin River, a source of water in the Rivière-Pentecôte area, in Port-Cartier. Drainage, peat harvesting and defoliation related to outbreaks of spruce budworm "are the most likely to exacerbate exports of dissolved organic matter to the river," helping to make water unfit for consumption. Drinking tap water. This is a right that…
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Recently graduated in environmental biogeoscience, Marie Doiron-Proulx looked at the causes of contamination of the Riverin River, a source of water in the Rivière-Pentecôte area, in Port-Cartier. Drainage, peat harvesting and defoliation related to outbreaks of spruce budworm "are the most likely to exacerbate exports of dissolved organic matter to the river," helping to make water unfit for consumption. Drinking tap water. This is a right that…