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Ontario Introduces Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund

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Ontario municipalities can now receive funding for water infrastructure projects to protect communities and build more housing. About the fund The Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund will...

A year in review: What we were talking about in 2022

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As 2022 draws to a close, we're looking back at the topics that piqued our interest, that got us talking, and had us asking...

Investments in water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure for Avalon Peninsula

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St. John’s, NL -  The Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Labour and Member of Parliament for St. John's South—Mount Pearl, on behalf of...

The path towards holistic water management

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An urban water system (UWS) constitutes three main service components: drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. Historically, these components have been managed in silos. Even...

Assessing stormwater quality in Saskatoon

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Stormwater is rainfall and snowmelt that runs off land into isolated storm sewers (separated stormwater sewers) or systems that collect a combination of stormwater...

Top five stormwater stories of 2021

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1. Next generation of stormwater incentives Stormwater user fees have provided many Canadian municipalities with stable, dedicated funding for critical stormwater services, while stormwater credit...

Alberta issues new guidelines for dealing with wastewater and stormwater

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The Government of Alberta has issued new guidelines for municipalities, developers, irrigators, and other parties dealing with stormwater and wastewater on their projects and...

Warmer, wetter, wilder: 38 million people in the Great Lakes region...

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The Great Lakes are getting warmer, wetter, and wilder. These atypical conditions are amplifying other threats. Harmful algal blooms are increasing in severity and...

Green roofs help Canadian cities adapt to climate change

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India, Germany, Belgium, and the U.S.A. experienced unprecedented rains and catastrophic floods that resulted in loss of life and widespread damage. While floods are...

Saskatoon and USask study rubber tire-derived chemicals in stormwater

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The City of Saskatoon and University of Saskatchewan (USask) recently collaborated on a study to see if chemicals that leach from rubber tires are...

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