The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) recently made a very helpful public service announcement for the water technology sector. Her report, Every Drop Counts, included a…
Financing improvements to North America’s water network is a gargantuan task—one that has ascended the public sector’s ability to handle alone. The recent public health…
The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is underway. Canadian corporate executives are, with good reason, concerned that a new wave of protectionism…
Spring and summer 2017 have been among the wettest on record in eastern North America. And the world is watching Houston, the Caribbean, and Florida…
In 2016, the number of green bond issuances doubled to US$83 billion—boosted by China’s US$36 billion of new issuances, and raising the total outstanding green…
Every decade or so there is a global catastrophe that redefines the conversation about public policy. For those interested in coastal development and climate change,…
There’s an old Yorkshire saying that goes, “Where there’s muck, there’s money.” The phrase means there’s a lot of money in dealing with dirty materials.…
There are an increasing number of municipalities in Ontario adopting environmental management standards (EMS) for their wastewater and stormwater systems in the form of ISO…
On this most important anniversary for our country, we have opportunity to reflect upon the role water has played in shaping our identity. When people…
Big data, internet of things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are rapidly making their way into the water industry. A plethora of organizations in the…
Evidence gathered over 60 years about adding fluoride to drinking water has failed to convince some people this major public health initiative is not only…
Countless lakes in Canada and elsewhere may offer some important insights into how life on Earth began and may also help us grapple with the…
When the makers of Cheerios get behind a new grain, touted to build healthier soils, sequester carbon, improve water quality, and be drought resistant: take…
On May 31, the Sewage Bypass Reporting Act, 2017 passed first reading in the Ontario Legislature. The bill amends the Ontario Water Resources Act to…
Onto each city, some rain must fall. But we can be smarter about how we deal with it. Most of the time stormwater is treated…
International development experts are well aware that families in poor countries living without a toilet or piped drinking water are at risk for all kinds…
As if consistently topping world happiness surveys wasn’t enough to make you wonder what they’re doing right in Arhaus, Denmark, how about this? They’ve achieved…
We have come a long way in understanding how the impacts of climate change affect Canada’s coasts and what to do about them. In 2004,…
Something monumental just happened on Lake Ontario, and I want my colleagues around the world to know about it. Today, Utilities Kingston unveiled a real-time sewage…
As the Manitoba Government contemplates the shape and form of its carbon pricing and green plan, heeding the words of perhaps our greatest public intellectual…
When Water Canada published a story on the top seven water stories for 2016, the authors highlighted the federal government’s commitment to new funds for…
Changing atmospheric temperatures are forcing changes in the water cycle—higher evaporation rates, more frequent and intense rainstorms, and less precipitation as snow. Together these changes…
The global trade environment is undergoing an unexpected radical period of change. One of the first acts of the Trump White House was to remove…
Budget 2017 was released almost a month ago and received a wide range of commentary analyzing its strengths and weaknesses. To highlight the impact of…