Friday, July 4, 2025
Manitoba to Launch Action Plan for Lake Winnipeg: Selinger
The Government of Manitoba will take the steps necessary to save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced today, concluding Dr. Peter Leavitt’s five-year study of…
Cenovus Invests $2.5M in Saltworks
Cenovus Energy Inc., the Calgary-based integrated oil company, is investing $2.5 million in Vancouver’s Saltworks Technologies Inc. through its Environmental Opportunity Fund (EOF), which enables…
Dene Tha’ First Nation Celebrates New Treatment Plant
The Dene Tha’ First Nation celebrated the grand opening of its new water treatment plant last week. Completed ahead of schedule and on budget, this…
Interview: Aleid Diepeveen
In advance of Ontario’s Global Water Leadership Summit last week, Water Canada spoke with Aleid Diepeveen, director of the innovation program in water technology for…
MNL: Clean Drinking Water a Priority for Municipalities
Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador (MNL) is not happy with recent comments from Environment and Conservation Minister Ross Wiseman. In a press release, MNL president Harry…
Seven Canadian Companies Honoured by Artemis Top 50
Ontario’s global water leadership summit played host to the launch of The Artemis Project’s 2011 honoured companies for most innovative water technologies. Seven Canadian companies…
Anaergia to Locate in Ontario
Ontario will host the new global centre for Anaergia Inc., a company that uses technology to produce biogas and natural gas energy from wastewater and…
Metals Company Reaches Agreement at Community Justice Forum
Earlier this week, Vancouver-based Teck Metals Ltd. Trail Operations, which represents a zinc and lead smelting and refining complex, participated in a community justice forum…
Aftershocks
The nuclear disasters caused by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan have heated up concerns over water safety and radiation. Authorities reported increases…
Reform Utility Financing: Brubaker
Too many drinking water and wastewater systems across Canada threaten public health and the environment, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe…
Innovation Thrives in Ontario
Building upon past successes with big companies such as Trojan Technologies and ZENON Environmental and recently passing the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, the…
Know Your Well
For Saskatchewan , spring runoff season presents a huge risk for private well contamination, especially considering the province’s high levels of arsenic, selenium, and uranium.…
State of Emergency
“We must commit ourselves as a society to ensure that every child has access to safe, clean drinking water,” wrote Assembly of First Nations (AFN)…
Bakker Named in Top 40 Under 40
Dr. Karen Bakker has been named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Bakker was born in Montreal and raised in Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate…
Ontario Introduces Innovation Showcase Funding
Last week Ontario’s ministry of environment announced its $17-million Showcasing Water Innovation program, meant to to fund leading edge, innovative and cost-effective solutions for managing…
Red Cross Offers Help for Flood Evacuees
With floods expected to worsen with the spring thaw, the Canadian Red Cross is ready to ramp up its response for families who have been…
Manitoba Announces Shoreline Protection Pilot
The Manitoba government is supporting a $100,000 pilot project to preserve and build up Victoria beach, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced today. Through a…
Blue Gold Canada Signs Mexico Agreement
Toronto-based Blue Gold Canada has signed an MOU with Hasar’s Grupo Ecologico that outlines plans to install a wastewater treatment plant at the Hasar’s landfill…
State of Emergency in Pikangikum
Chief Jonah Strang has declared a state of emergency for Pikangikum First Nation, a northwestern Ontario community with an on-reserve population of 2,400, no all-year…
Another Milestone for Seymour-Cap Project
Metro Vancouver’s contractor completed tunnel boring work last week on the twin tunnels that will convey Capilano source water to and from the regional district’s…
Xogen Aims to Go Global With Pilot Plant
Xogen Technologies is expecting that its new pilot plant will generate global interest. Now operational in the Town of Orangeville’s Water Pollution Control Plant, the…
New COO for evandtec
David Martin has joined Toronto-based evandtec’s executive staff as COO. He will report to Paul Wickberg, CEO. Martin most recently helped Dantherm expand markets for…
Pond, Tunnel and Pipe
It wasn’t a happy day back in 1987 when the International Joint Commission (IJC) listed Toronto’s waterfront as one of 43 Areas of Concern in…
Study Takes Stock of Pollutants
Over 228 million kilograms of direct pollutant releases to surface waters were reported by industrial facilities in North America in 2006, while a minimum of…