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Meanwhle in Nova Scotia they can't dump water used to wash vegetables.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...nada-1.3301476

About 100 seasonal workers are losing their jobs at an Annapolis Valley frozen food processing plant that will close after Environment Canada ordered it to stop discharging waste water into a nearby waterway.

Hillaton Foods, a division of Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd. that primarily processes carrots for the North American market, is shutting down its facility near Canning, N.S., at the end of the year.

Oxford says Hillaton operated under a provincial permit and that a study done for the company showed waste water from the facility did not harm the environment and there was "no measurable impact on water quality in the Habitant estuary."

However, Environment Canada issued an order prohibiting the company from discharging into tidal waters after Dec. 31, according to the company.

The issue is the provincial and federal governments use different testing methods, according to Burkhardt.

The province tests diluted waste water within the estuary, he says. Under the federal regime, Burkhardt says, stickleback fish are placed in undiluted waste water and must survive for 72 hours.

Burkhardt said the organics in the undiluted sample "take up" much of the oxygen in the water, suffocating the fish. He says it does not reflect what happens in the estuary.

"If you go to the end of where the pipe is disposed into the bay, there's actually fish swimming and actually it's a main fishing hole for many of the locals," said Burkhardt.