Friday, August 29, 2025
Water Leaders Help Shape Federal Innovation and Skills Plan
Water featured prominently at a strategy session held in Montreal yesterday (March 21, 2018) as part of federal efforts to shape Canada’s future economic growth…
Imperial Oil Pressured to Disclose Water Risks
Imperial Oil is under pressure to disclose its water-related risks to shareholders, yet the company maintains that it is already doing enough to be transparent.…
Municipal Water Pricing Report Highlights Challenges, Opportunities
A new report by Canadian Water Network (CWN) highlights the mounting financial pressures facing Canadian water utilities. Balancing the Books: Financial Sustainability for Canadian Water…
Why Canada Should Engage in the New Water Decade: Republic of Tajikistan
World Water Day 2018 marks the beginning of the new International Decade for Action – Water for Sustainable Development. The new Decade can be traced back…
CCME Posts Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life & Carbamazepine
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) has posted The Canadian Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Carbamazepine. Carbamazepine (CBZ), sold under…
Alert Labs Supports First Nations Drinking Water Pilot
Alert Labs, Kitchener, Ontario-based maker of smart sensors, is now supporting First Nations communities to make drinking water safe. For the month beginning March 22…
COSIA Partners Demonstrate Water Innovation in Oil Sands Operations
At its 2017 annual Performance Update, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) showcased advances towards its goal of accelerating the pace of environmental performance in…
CWQA Announces a New Executive Director
The Canadian Water Quality Association has announced that Anne Baliva will be the new executive director. Baliva served as program manager of the Canadian Water Quality…
Predicting Hydrological Change in Calgary under Climate and Land-Use Scenarios
The lead author of a study focused on the impact of precipitation, thaw and development on Calgary’s second-largest river basin suggests that climate change and…
National Bioretention Standards Under Review
Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff using grass buffer strips, sand beds, ponding areas, organic layers, plants,…
Water Canada Launches a New Comic about FATBERGs
Water Canada and the Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group (MESUG) have partnered with Illustrator Nathan Wright and KSB Pumps (Canada) to presents a fresh, new comic…
Double Disinfection Treatment for Safer Drinking Water
In spite of good progress in water hygiene during the recent decades, contaminated water still causes millions of diseases every year. Most of these diseases…
AGAT Laboratories Appoints New VP
AGAT Laboratories has appointed Scott Preston to the position of vice president. Preston holds Environmental Management and Technical Diplomas as well as other related technical…
Export Potential in Asia is Huge for Canadian Cleantech
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada hosted its third annual meeting of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council in Toronto, on March 2, 2018. The group discussed…
World’s First Intelligent Wastewater Pumping System Available in Canada
The world’s first wastewater pumping system with integrated intelligence is now available in Canada. Xylem, a leading global water technology company has developed a new…
Water Operators Without Borders
Canadian water and wastewater operators Jason Mank, Marcel Misuraca, and Glen Ketchum recently made a difference in the lives of the residents of Dominica. The…
Mudsnails Provide Water Quality Indicators
A tiny snail could be a big help to researchers measuring water quality along the U.S. and Canadian Atlantic coast. Eastern mudsnails live in coastal…
Federal Budget 2018 Delivers a Wide Range of Spending
Finance Minister Bill Morneau released the 2018-19 federal budget today in Ottawa today. The budget featured a wide range of new spending, including many line…
A Low-Cost Way to Remove Valium from Wastewater
A low-cost, efficient one-step method to remove the anxiety drug Diazepam from recycled water and wastewater, using titanium dioxide nanofibers has been developed by researchers…
Future Food Sustainability
Many things in life are optional, but food isn’t one of them. That’s why the findings of a new research report by the Institute for…
Farmers, Cities Team Up to Help Meet 40 Per Cent Target
The Thames River Phosphorus Reduction Collaborative (PRC) is moving into the next phase in developing practical ways to reduce the amount of phosphorus getting into…
Fishackathon Winners Go Global
Hundreds of young designers, developers, and subject matter experts from across Canada joined thousands of participants in more than 35 international cities on February 10-11,…
New Survey Points to Political Interference with Federal Scientists
The Trudeau government has made progress in its efforts to reverse the impacts of muzzling under the previous government, says a new survey report released…
Privatization Risk and Rewards
The tension is mounting in Britain. While Labour Party politician John McDonnell promises to renationalize public sector services, including water, due to the “scandalous” payouts to…