Tuesday, July 1, 2025
New Report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics
Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region have released a new report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics. “We are very…
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Pollution Probe, CGLR, and RBC Launch Big Data Project for Great Lakes
Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) have partnered with the Royal Bank of Canada on a project to improve approaches…
Big Data and IoT Expected to Generate $20B Globally in Water
According to Bluefield Research, big data and the IoT will attract over $20 billion globally between 2016 and 2025 in the water sector, providing solutions…
How Water Utilities Can Recover Millions of Dollars Using Big Data
Climate change, drought, and increasing demand are creating a global water volatility crisis. As communities around the world find ways to use water more efficiently,…
Will Big Data Save Our Water Resources?
Whether you consider it a buzzword or a panacea for the world’s problems, big data is a hot topic lately. Simply put, big data analytics…
From Streams to Stories: Niagara College students visualize water data
From the moment we wake until we sleep, data and information permeate every facet of our lives. Like scattered puzzle pieces, data is raw numbers…
Data Meets Action: The Riparian Web Portal
In 2002, Alberta farmer Don Ruzicka was facing the worst drought in recent history. Fortunately, five years earlier, Ruzicka had worked with Ducks Unlimited Canada…
BC’s Carl Data Solutions wastewater system software chosen for Los Angeles County sanitation districts
Vancouver’s Carl Data Solutions has announced that The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts has selected FlowWorks software for real-time reporting and analytics on a wastewater…
H2Opinion: Reflecting on the importance of open access water data
How do we build a future where we have the data necessary to make confident, transparent, and inclusive decisions to protect freshwater? This question is…
David Daniels joins Carl Data Solutions as vice president
David Daniels has joined Carl Data Solutions as the vice president of Environmental Monitoring as a Service (EMaaS) Sales. “David is a proven large enterprise…
Freshwater Health—New Data from WWF-Canada Unveils Issues of Concerns
Canada holds 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, which is facing high levels of stress from pollution, habitat loss and fragmentation, overuse, and increasingly,…
Data for Life—Clean Water Starts with Access to Data
As governments across Canada and around the world rally to address the coronavirus pandemic and the economic catastrophe it has unleashed, there is a slower-burning…
Blue Accounting Releases Comprehensive Database of Coastal Wetlands Projects in the Great Lakes Basin
Blue Accounting has released a comprehensive database of coastal wetlands protection, restoration, and enhancement projects in the Great Lakes Basin. Using the database, decision-makers and…
Building Context Around Water Data
While data is a representation of reality, the stories we tell based on that data are products of interpretation. Practitioners often debate data collection and…
Cleantech Funding for Trenchless Watermains and Improved Agri Data
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) will fund fourteen new cleantech companies across Canada, including two ventures with direct impact on Canadian water resources, Sanexen Environmental…
New Era of Water Quality Data with Blockchain Integrated DataStream
Yesterday, The Gordon Foundation, World Wildlife Fund Canada, the Atlantic Water Network, and Royal Bank of Canada presented the blockchain integrated Atlantic DataStream, a major…
Lake Winnipeg Community Monitoring Releases Phosphorus Hotspot Data
Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a network of citizens, scientists, and conservation professionals, has released data on phosphorus hotspots gathered from its 2017 field season.…
Tracking Data
It’s a tough question to answer, even for those who work in freshwater. What indicators do you use to measure freshwater health? Even more, how…
DNA Data Shows Asian Carp Approaching Lake Michigan
New data released by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service confirms the imminent threat of Asian carp to the Great Lakes. Sampling data collected…
Okanagan Tracks Water Resources Data
A computer model developed to determine the amount of water resources required for agricultural land in the Okanagan now and in the future is helping…
Eramosa Engineering joins forces with CIMA+
Toronto, ON – CIMA+, one of Canada’s largest privately-owned consulting engineering firms, has announced its acquisition of Eramosa Engineering Inc. (“Eramosa”), a specialist firm providing…
Experts weigh in on Ontario water issues for 2022 and beyond
As the Ontario elections loom large on the horizon, Water Canada took the opportunity to ask water industry experts to weigh in on what they…
Cyber security for water utilities
Just south of the border, a water utility produces 20 million gallons of potable water daily. The water is dispersed through 1,000 kilometres of pipes…
Youth Leading Innovation—Reflections on Five Years of AquaHacking Challenges
In the five years since the launch of the AquaHacking Challenge, remarkable shifts in the tech-engagement and water sector landscapes have taken place. Before, the…