Thursday, February 12, 2026
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…
International
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…
Water IT Market to Grow
Water information technology (IT) is a US$530-million market today, with potential to address a US$16.3-billion market in 2020, according a new report from Lux Research.…
ENPAR Enters into Asian Joint Venture
Dr. Gene Shelp, president and CEO of Guelph, Ontario-based ENPAR Technologies Inc., has announced that ENPAR has entered into a joint venture with AsiaCo, a…
OPCEA Concerned about FCM Resolution
OPCEA wants FCM to take a step back. In a press release today, the Ontario Pollution Control Equipment Association (OPCEA) stated that it believes both…
More Canadian Companies Look to China
Quebec-based BioSpec Global Solutions Inc., and partner ICBS Ltd. have announced that they’re filing Eurasian patents in anticipation of entry into China. “China is one…
Laliberté Makes for Space
“Humanitarian space explorer” Guy Laliberté blasted into orbit early this morning, becoming Canada’s first space tourist. The Cirque du Soleil and ONE DROP Foundation founder…
Eimco Sees $30M in New Contracts
GLV Inc.’s water treatment group, Eimco Water Technologies, has been awarded new major contracts worth close to $30.3 million. Among the major orders awarded in…
Imagine H2O Competition Opens
The inaugural Imagine H2O Prize competition has opened for submissions. The competition offers prizes of $70,000 in cash and in-kind services, to be awarded to…
“Protectionist” Water Industry Dispute Continues
Dan McCarthy, president and CEO of global water business Black & Veatch, is fighting back against “protectionist approaches” in the water industry. Yesterday, he advocated…
Global Water Roundtable Created: Stockholm
A new initiative launched during World Water Week in Stockholm will establish global standards for water stewardship, with the goal of addressing the global threat…
Nexterra and ANDRITZ Partner
Vancouver-based Nexterra Systems Corp., a supplier of biomass gasification solutions, and Austrian company ANDRITZ, working in customized plants, process technologies, and services for the hydropower,…
Water Issues Top Environmental Concern: Survey
A global public opinion survey on attitudes about fresh water sustainability, management and conservation finds that people around the world view water issues as the…
RBC Donates $4.1M
RBC today announced its latest round of RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Thirty-one organizations, selected out of 159 applicants from around the world,…
BIOREM Awarded Three Projects in China
Guelph-based BIOREM Inc., designer and manufacturer of air pollution control systems, last week announced three new municipal orders from its China office. The three orders,…