Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Study Links Softener to Energy Use
Softeners are among the “very best” household energy savers, says a new independent study released by the Battelle Institute, commissioned by the Water Quality Research…
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Canada-Ontario Great Lakes Agreement Extended
The 2007 Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem (COA) has been extended to March 31, 2011. The agreement, signed in June 2007, was…
EPCOR Supports Decade of Action
As part of its effort to increase the public’s understanding of water scarcity issues in Canada, EPCOR Utilities Inc. is supporting the United Nations’ Water…
GE to Move Zenon Operations to Hungary
Just days after the provincial government announced the proposed Water Opportunities Act, a plan to capitalize on Ontario’s water technology sector, GE Canada has announced…
Groups Respond to Proposed Water Opportunities Act
With the announcement of the proposed Water Opportunities Act in yesterday’s Speech from the Throne, the Ontario government is setting the province on a path…
Open Ontario: Plans to Make a Splash
“The world needs Ontario. The world needs what we have to offer,” said Ontario’s Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley in Monday’s Speech from the Throne, which…
NAWS Project Ruled in Manitoba’s Favour
The U.S. District Court has again ruled in favour of Manitoba in its case against the Northwest Area Water Supply (NAWS) project, Water Stewardship Minister…
EDC Commits $10M in Equity to XPV Water Fund
Good news for water technology businesses. Export Development Canada (EDC) has announced up to US$10 million in equity commitments to XPV Water Fund Limited Partnership,…
Clearford Enters India
Ottawa-based Clearford Industries Inc. has established a sales and business development agreement with Indocan Capital, a consulting firm with offices in India and Toronto. The…
EPA Releases Plan for Great Lakes
Over the weekend, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the…
RBC Blue Water Commits $1M to Haiti
The RBC Blue Water Project has committed $1 million to support the efforts of ONE DROP and Oxfam to provide access to water and sanitation…
Nestlé Donates to Haiti Relief Efforts
Nestlé Waters North America (which includes Nestlé Waters Canada) has pledged to donate $1 million in bottled water products to support disaster relief efforts and…
Smart Metering is Critical: Report
Sixty-eight per cent of water utility managers believe it is critical that water utilities adopt smart meter technologies, says Testing the Waters, a new study…
Imagine H2O Finalists Announced
The judges for the first-ever Imagine H2O Prize have chosen ten finalists of the global competition. Created to help find sustainable solutions to global water…
Global Water Experts to Meet in Canada
More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Ontario from February 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach…
KSB Opens Montreal Office
KSB Pumps Inc. has opened a new regional office in Montreal that will focus on customers and consulting engineering firms in Quebec. Located nearby Montréal-Trudeau…
WRI to Measure Water Risks and Opportunities
Think tank the World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with General Electric and Goldman Sachs, has launched an initiative to measure water-related risks facing companies…
Demand for Treatment Products to Reach US$59B by 2013
World demand for water treatment products is projected to increase 5.7 percent per year to US$59 billion in 2013, well above the rate of economic…
BioteQ Wins Export Award
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. has received the 2009 Canada Export Achievement Award for the Pacific Region. Presented by Export Development Canada and PROFIT Magazine,…
PDS Marks Growth Spurt
Pathogen Detection Systems, Inc. (PDS), an Ontario startup company founded on university researchers’ determination to find a faster, more effective way to monitor municipal water…
EDC Report Highlights Water Treatment
Canadian companies are uniquely well-positioned to respond to the global infrastructure boom because of their experience in finding infrastructure solutions in some of the harshest…
GLV Acquires Christ Water
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced yesterday that it has finalized its $39.8-million investment in Quebec company GLV Inc., as part of…
Report Highlights Water Technologies for Green Buildings
A new green building report, sponsored by the Mechanical Contractors Education and Research Foundation, the research arm of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA),…
More Great Lakes Funding Dispersed
This morning the federal government announced $410,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for four projects to clean up the Detroit River Area…