London, Ontario-based TrojanUV announced on October 29 that the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago has selected its newest wastewater ultraviolet light disinfection system,…
On October 29, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative sent letters asking regulators and industry to commit to cleaning up microplastics in the…
The Waterloo-based Canadian Water Network (CWN) announced the appointment of Dr. Simon Courtenay as Scientific Director on October 30. The appointment came into effect at…
The City of Campbell River and representatives from BC Hydro have agreed that the community’s water supply is safer and more reliable when separated from…
A new wastewater treatment facility has been completed in the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in central Labrador. Included in the new facility are a…
Quebec provincial government has announced a $25,000 contribution to the Agro-Futur Matane organization, which operates in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. The investment will go towards efforts…
The Halifax Regional Municipality’s (HRM) Solar City Program helps area homeowners use solar power to heat water. The program pays between $6,000 and $8,000 to…
From microcell batteries to prosthetics to Iron Man suits, 3D printers continue to churn out an amazing range of conceptual and functional items. Yet, decades…
The Orleans area in Ottawa’s east end saw a spat of water main breaks in recent weeks, which are disrupted traffic and caused water to…
The City of Waterloo council approved moving forward with upgrades to the Colonial sanitary pumping station on October 21. The Ontario city’s two-year project will…
The Huron Elgin London Projects (HELP) Clean Water initiative, a regional project that will serve the water needs of more than 500,000 residents in southwestern…
British Columbia’s Environment Minister, Mary Polak, released the province’s new Water Sustainability Act proposal on October 18. The act will be introduced to government during…
Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt reintroduced the proposed Safeguarding Canada’s Seas and Skies Act on October 18, a piece of legislation first tabled March 18…
The Province of Manitoba is reviewing operating guidelines for three important water control structures leading up to work on a new Lake Manitoba outlet and…
The Rural Municipalities of Kindersley and McKillop in Saskatchewan are each receiving funding from the provincial and federal governments to improve their water and wastewater…
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has announced a Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF) loan of $10 million and a grant of $1 million for the…
A dry Navajo reservation and a lush Phoenix suburb stretch side by side. The divide between the two patches of land looks so precise, at…
The Government of Yukon has taken steps to enhance its understanding of water distribution, movement, and quality in the territory’s north, an area the government…
Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) is proceeding with construction of a sanitary sewer treatment plant to service Tsawwassen Lands in British Columbia. In a statement, Chief…
Despite its name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is not just doctors without borders. When recent Ph.D. Syed Imran Ali became involved with the organization, he…
Yesterday, Bill 6, the proposed Great Lakes Protection Act 2013 passed its second reading in the Ontario Legislature. The proposed act, if passed, would would…
Nestlé Canada Inc. has withdrawn its appeal to the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal concerning restrictions applied to its renewed permit to take water in Hillsburgh,…
Vancouver-based Quest Water Global Inc. and Pure Water Solutions Corp. have announced a joint venture to market and distribute Quest’s AQUAtap Community Drinking Water Station…
The University of Manitoba has received a Government of Canada investment through the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support the…