FedDev Ontario has announced a contribution of nearly $20 million to help fund the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) through the Ontario Technology Development Program.…
Due to increasingly severe weather and precipitation, water damage accounts for $1.7 billion in insurance claims per year on a national scale and now surpasses…
New guidelines have been released to help British Columbia’s coastal communities update floodplain area maps and adapt to rising sea levels. The report, Coastal Floodplain…
Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation, Glen Murray, today announced the chair and board members of the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP). Nicholas Parker, co-founder…
Kananaskis Country’s Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area will soon see water and wastewater treatment plants and upgrades. “This community has seen a lot of growth and…
Ottawa-based Clearford Industries Inc., developer of a wastewater collection system, has partnered with Engineers India Limited (EIL) for the utilization of the Clearford system in…
Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate change…
Ontario continues to be a North American leader in providing clean, safe, and reliable drinking water to Ontarians, reads a press release from the Minister…
Montreal consulting firm GENIVAR Inc. has acquired Ontario-based Dakins Engineering Group Ltd., an instrumentation control and automation systems consulting engineering firm specialized in water and…
Looking at a map of Canada’s many lakes and rivers may give the impression of a secure water future, but it’s a false sense of…
Last week, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) released the long-awaited results of its National Assessment of Water and Wastewater Systems in First Nation…
Environment Minister Peter Kent today issued a press release announcing an integrated monitoring plan for Canada’s oil sands region. The Government of Canada will be…
The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) has launched a new Groundwater Working Group (GWWG) to focus on improving scientific knowledge of regional groundwater systems using…
Canadian cities may be booming, but according to Statistics Canada’s findings, smaller communities are experiencing a widespread drop in population. In Nova Scotia, the rural-urban…
Canadian lakes, like those in other northern regions, are warming up faster than lakes further south, according to satellite data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…
The concept of transparency in government isn’t a new thing, but theory is always easier than practice. Just think of how the term “public consultation”…
On June 14, the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management released a report on its Water Innovation Forum, held January 23-24, 2011, in collaboration…
Dr. Monique Dubé has won Canadian Geographic‘s 2011 Environmental Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to aquatic ecosystem research. Dubé is the Canada Research Chair…
Does your company tweet? Are all employees plugged in to LinkedIn or Facebook? How useful do you find these tools for your water-related business? Let…
“People ask what Manitoba and Israel could possibly have in common. Well, the answer is water. And we’re learning through collaboration how we can do…
The Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, Canadian Water Network and RBC Blue Water Project announced the Blue Economy Initiative this week, which will provide information…
Mayors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative are calling on the American and Canadian federal governments to build on the U.S. Great…
Yesterday’s Canadian Water Summit couldn’t have fallen on a better day. The Council of the Federation (COF), comprised of Canada’s premiers, concurrently announced that it…
Contaminated drinking water is a major source of concern for small and rural communities (SRCs) including First Nations reserves. Many small communities have water contamination…