Friday, April 17, 2026
Cottage Life
The wild streams and rivers of rural Canada look clear and crisp enough to drink directly from the source, but thirsty cottagers beware: the potential…
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Case Study: AMI in Miramichi, New Brunswick
“One-third of Canadian households don’t have water meters because they haven’t been regulated to do it,” said Doug Kaupp, Lethbridge, Alberta’s water utility manager, during…
Can We Rely on Technology to Guarantee Future Water Resources?
During this year’s Rivers to Oceans Week (June 8 to 14), the Canadian Museum of Nature is running a café scientifique—a forum in an informal setting—that asks this very question in several locations around the country.
Hidden Treasure
Making a map is easy. Making a good resource inventory map is difficult. That’s what four southwest Saskatchewan rural municipalities (RMs) found out when they…
Water by the Barrel
Low Impact Development (LID), the concept of onsite management of stormwater through natural, decentralized controls, has been catching on fast across Canada and the United…
Digging Up Dirt
While geothermal technology looks like a great alternative to oil, geothermal installations and their effect on groundwater have been a topic of environmental concern for…
Constructed Wetlands
Picture a wetland treatment system. Do you see the man-made equivalent of a natural marsh-open water with some cattails and maybe a few ducks? If…
Protecting Lake Simcoe
Once known as Canada’s ice fishing capital, Lake Simcoe is Ontario’s largest lake after the Great Lakes, boasting a surface area of approximately 744 square…
Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnis
“Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it.” In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one…
Interview: Dr. Rob de Loë
Over the past two years, hundreds of boil water advisories have been issued in Ontario alone. Why aren’t we providing everyone in Canada with safe…
Stock the Shelves
According to the United Nations, the current slump in the world’s biggest economies will shrink global output by 0.4 per cent in 2009 — the worst…
Death to Bacteria
In our rush to use new technologies in the improvement of man-made materials or to clean up the environment, sometimes we forget to consider or…
Opportunity Knocks
Water tariffs are on the rise throughout North America and around the world, as we all try to figure out how we’re going to meet…
H2Outlaw
In 1955, a political group called the Keep America Committee issued a flier decrying water fluoridation, naming its practice one of the “Unholy Three,” placing…
Breaking Ground
After five years, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) will finally have a permanent home in 2009. The centre was founded in 2004 by the…
New Guidelines for Green Advertising
With just about every company claiming to be greener than the next, consumers can be forgiven for being confused. Recently the federal Competition Bureau and…
The Banning of the Bottle
On August 19, London, Ont. became the first Canadian municipality to eliminate the purchase and sale of single-use bottled water at a number of city-owned…
High Court Water Buzz
One summer evening in 1928, a woman in Paisley, Scotland found a decomposed snail in her ginger beer. She sued the maker of the drink…
Expanding Their Eco-Imagination
As part of an expansion to its “ecomagination” strategy, the General Electric Co. (GE) announced on May 28 that it would reduce its global water…
Why Blue is the New Green
According to one of the world’s largest consumer products companies, Canadians are huge water wasters, second only to Americans, and most of us don’t even…
Remarkable Natural Filtration
After oxygen, water is our most important molecule — the source of all life on Earth and the key to all great civilizations. But clean…
Managing Municipal Risks
The Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 (SDWA) imposes significant obligations on municipalities for the operation of their drinking-water systems. With those obligations come risks, including…
Spending to Save
It is without a doubt one of the most pressing issues facing cities throughout North America today, and for most urban dwellers, be them residential…
State of the Industry: Into the Looking Glass
As unique as 2007 was for many in this industry, 2008 will follow with some of the same trends observed last year. Consider the last…