Thursday, February 12, 2026
Actor Kevin Costner Backed Smart Membrane, Water Planet
In 2009, famed actor and environmentalist Kevin Costner and Eric Hoek, then a professor of engineering at UCLA, developed a system aimed at cleaning up…
International
Closing U.S. Water Infrastructure Gap Could Generate $220B
The Value of Water Campaign, supported by founding member Water Environment Federation (WEF), has released a new report that found closing the investment gap in…
New Research Suggests Water Scarcity Measurement Flawed
New research from the University College London suggests that current metrics used to determine the global water crisis might not accurately reflect scarcity and sufficiency.…
OMERS & Kuwaiti Consortium Purchase Stake in Thames Water
Borealis Infrastructure, the infrastructure investment manager for OMERS, which is the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees, has formed a consortium with a Kuwaiti investment…
Wastewater from Urbanization & Energy Driving Valves Market
A market report from Transparency Market Research has indicated that continued global urbanization will drive demand for wastewater treatment applications, specifically in the valves market.…
Risk Reduction Summit Tackles Regional Climate Change Preparedness
The Fifth Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas (RP17) concluded this week, which focused on regional policies for preventing natural and human-induced…
The Worst Droughts Travel, According to a New Study
Steinbeck was right. A new study has found that some droughts can travel hundreds of kilometres from their point of origin and that once a drought…
Great Lakes Mayors Troubled by U.S. Budget Cuts
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (Cities Initiative), a coalition of mayors from over 125 cities across the basin representing over 17 million…
Great Lakes Commission on Binational Infrastructure Priorities
On March 2nd, the binational Great Lakes Commission (GLC) called for U.S. and Canadian leadership to rebuild and modernize aging water infrastructure in the Great…
Big Data and IoT Expected to Generate $20B Globally in Water
According to Bluefield Research, big data and the IoT will attract over $20 billion globally between 2016 and 2025 in the water sector, providing solutions…
UPDATED: WHO Calls for R&D of New Antibiotics to Combat Resistant Bacteria
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant priority pathogens, cataloguing 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat…
In Memory: Suthan S. Suthersan
Arcadis North America chief technical officer and executive vice-president Suthan S. Suthersan, PhD, PE, passed away unexpectedly Feb. 20 in Yardley, Pa., at the age…
Fourth Day Announces New Partnerships in Canada
Fourth Day has acquired both a new project and a new partner in Canada as it helps Getcleantech.com to raise its international profile. Getcleantech.com is…
Study Board to Investigate Lake Champlain Flood Risks
The International Joint Commission (IJC) today announced that it has appointed a bi-national study board to undertake the work outlined in Option B of the 2013…
Mining Water and Wastewater Management to Grow at 5 per cent CAGR
A analysis from Technavio suggests that the global mining water and wastewater management market will grow by 4.83 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).…
Commission Makes Recommendations on Great Lakes Microplastic
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has a released a report and recommendations to the governments of Canada and the United States regarding microplastics in the…
Research Highlights Impact of Petroleum on Fish Species
Two recent studies from the Univsersity of Alberta and Stanford have emphasized the deleterious effects of petroleum spills on the health of fish species, freshwater…
Floating Wetlands Could Assist with Wastewater Treatment
Researchers from Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma have undertaken a study on the use of floating treatment wetlands (FTW) as…
Report Gives 7 Shifts in Water Markets to Watch
A report on water market shifts from Bluefield Research outlines 7 signposts to watch for in water markets for 2017. The shifts are focused on…
Canadian Water Tech Makes Top Global Cleantech List
Cleantech Group has announced its list of top 100 cleantech companies, which includes Canadian water tech companies, Axine Water Technologies and Saltworks Technologies Inc., among…
Extreme Weather and Sea Level Change Increase Threefold
Organizations representing the actuarial profession in Canada and the United States launched the Actuaries Climate Index (ACI), which has found that incidents of extreme weather…
Report Notes Success and Weakness in Great Lakes Water Management
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has released its draft Triennial Assessment of Progress (TAP) report, in which it found much to commend on the progress…
Canada to Assist Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission
The Canadian Space Agency awarded a $3.8M contract to Communications & Power Industries Canada (CPI) to build components for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)…
Smart Sensors a Significant Environmental Protection Technology
IBM has released its annual 5 in 5 annual report on five innovations that will change human lives within five years. This year, they’ve focused…