Monday, August 4, 2025
Watermain Breaks in Ottawa Not Unusual, Says City Memo
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…
City of Waterloo Approves Water Projects
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…
Southwestern Ontario Clean Water Initiative Making Progress
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…
BC Introduces New Water Sustainability Act Proposal
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…
Federal Government Reintroduces Safeguarding Canada’s Seas and Skies Act
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…
Manitoba Reviews Operating Guidelines for Water Control Structures
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…
Saskatchewan Municipalities Receive Funding for Upgrades
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…
FCM Supports Upgrades to Wastewater Systems in Elora
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…
Massive Public Shift
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…
Yukon Installs New Hydrometric Monitoring Stations
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 Partners with Maple Reinders to Build Treatment Plant
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…
A WatSan in South Sudan
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…
Ontario Bill to Protect Great Lakes Passes Second Reading
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 Withdraws Appeal to Environmental Review Tribunal
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,…
Quest Water, Pure Water Solutions Announce Joint Venture
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…
University of Manitoba’s CREATE H2O Project Receives Funding
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…
Imagine H2O Now Accepting Food & Agriculture Competition Applications
Imagine H2O, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization providing a path-to-market platform for early-stage water technology companies, has announced that its 2013 Food & Agriculture Competition…
Laurier to Open Water Science Research Facility
Wilfred Laurier University will mark the opening of its new Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science on October 11 with an event featuring remarks…
AMEC, AECOM to Consult on Alberta Flood Risk Mitigation
Alberta’s provincial government is continuing work to reduce the impact of future floods and announced the hiring of engineering consultants AMEC and AECOM on October…
TD Economics Report Proposes New Method of Measuring Environmental Performance
A new TD Economics report (PDF) has proposed a “new, holistic approach” to measuring the progress being made by Canadian businesses in achieving economic growth…
British Columbia City Purchases Wastewater Treatment Facility
The City of Alberni, British Columbia has purchased a wastewater treatment facility from Catalyst Paper Corporation in British Columbia. The transaction is part of a…
Canada, BC Renew Water Monitoring Agreement
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have renewed an agreement ensuring the collection, processing, publication and distribution of water quantity data in the province.…
Alberta Towns Celebrate Water Infrastructure Projects
Two Alberta communities celebrated the completion of important water infrastructure projects on September 27. Residents of Peace River, in the province’s northwest, celebrated significant improvements…
Hamilton Moves Forward on Cleaning Up Toxic Hotspot
The Randle Reef sediment remediation project, a $138.9-million strategy for cleaning up contaminated sediment in Hamilton Harbour in Ontario, took a significant step forward September…