Tuesday, January 20, 2026
For Canada 150, More Than 150,00 Acres of Land and Water Impacted
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has announced that in 2017 it has affected more than 150,000 acres of land and water across Canada to celebrate Canada…
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Waterlution Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Youth Work
On November 24th, Waterlution’s Youth Advisory Board (YAB) launched a crowdfunding campaign for its Great Water Challenge (GWC) program, which features, Canada’s Great Water Adventure,…
Alberta and NWT Release First Progress Report on Bilateral Transboundary Water Agreement
The Government of Alberta and the Government of the Northwest Territories have released a report regarding year one of implementation of the Alberta-Northwest Territories Transboundary Water…
CCME Water Quality Index Releases New App
The Canadian Council of Environment Ministers (CCME) has released the Water Quality Index 2.0 application and CCME Water Quality Index User’s Manual 2017 Update, replacing the Water Quality Index 1.2 published…
Day One, Great Lakes Day on Parliament Hill Met With Support
Canada and the U.S. have a long legacy of strong diplomatic ties that have been fostered through security, trade, and co-management of the Great Lakes.…
Federal Gov Announces Cleantech Program for Natural Resources
Today, Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced a $155-million program that will fund clean technology projects in the areas of energy, mining and forestry, helping to…
National Assessment of Canada’s Wildest Rivers
Canada’s history, culture, and patterns of human development are a reflection of the nation’s rivers. Although Canada once had an abundance of wild, large, and…
Artificial Sweeteners in Groundwater Indicate Contamination from Septic Systems
Researchers from the University of Waterloo has found evidence that artificial sweeteners are making their way into rural groundwater through septic system wastewater. The study describes how the researchers tested private,…
Pure Technologies Water Division Shows Q3 Growth
Pure Technologies Ltd. has announced its financial performance for the quarter ended September 30th, 2017. The company provided the following third quarter overview and nine-month period…
Canadian Guide to Management of Tailings Facilities Aims for Zero Failure
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has released a revised edition of its A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities. The third edition includes significant…
CWN Names Advisory Panel on Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater
The Canadian Water Network has announced the names of the experts who will participate on a new advisory panel tasked with framing and assessing the knowledge, practice, and priorities in…
Government Implements Diversity Measures, Announces New Research Chairs
The government of Canada has moved forward with changes to the way federal granting councils target money through the Canada Research Chairs Program that are…
Survey of Drinking Water Plants Shows Population & Tech Growth
Statistics Canada has released data from the 2015 Survey of Drinking Water Plants, which shows growth in the population supplied, a slight decrease in per…
Stantec Awarded for Fort McMurray Wildfire Water Recovery
The heroic efforts of the team of water resources engineers who repaired and recovered water and wastewater infrastructure during the Fort McMurray wildfires were honoured last week.…
Canada Achieves Milestone in Oceans Protection
The government of Canada has achieved a new milestone in plans to preserve Canada’s oceans from coast to coast. This week, the Minister of Fisheries,…
Investors Issue Declaration Related to Disclosure of Climate Risks
Thirty Canadian and international institutional investors and pension funds representing approximately CAD $1.2 trillion of assets under management have issued a joint Declaration of Institutional Investors on Climate-Related Financial Risks.…
Online Data Tool Launched to Support Great Lakes Decision-Making
The Great Lakes Commission and The Nature Conservancy have launched new information services for their Blue Accounting initiative at the 2017 Leadership Summit of the Great Lakes and…
Megan Leslie Replaces David Miller at WWF-C
Megan Leslie, former parliamentarian and current VP of ocean conservation for World Wildlife Fund Canada, has accepted the role of president and CEO of the conservation organization,…
Nestlé and Alliance for Water Stewardship Partner to Certify Canadian Operations
Nestlé Waters announced this week that it will extend its partnership with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to certify 20 global factories by 2020, including bottling…
Drinking Water Expert Inducted as a Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence
Professional engineer and water scientist Steve Hrudey was recently inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence. Steve is an internationally renowned researcher, educator, author,…
Vancouver Launches its Adopt a Catch Basin Program
Vancouver has over 45,000 catch basins removing excess water from streets during rainfall events. Acknowledging that the city can only do so much to remove leaves, debris, and…
Mining Supercluster Seeks Canadian Water Technology Partners
In early October, the CLEER (Clean, Low-energy, Effective, Engaged, and Remediated) mining sector’s supercluster proposal received notification that it made the shortlist for federal funding. Now, the CLEER Mining Supercluster group, led by…
Canada Launches New Municipal Climate Innovation Program
Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and Jenny Gerbasi, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have announced funding for 103 initiatives in…
Victaulic Launches Industry’s First Grooved Piping System for PVC
Victaulic, a producer of mechanical pipe joining solutions, has launched the industry’s first grooved piping system designed exclusively for chlorinated polyvinyl chloride/polyvinyl chloride (CPVC/PVC) pipe.…