Saturday, June 21, 2025
City of Markham Takes Green Approach to Flood Control
The City of Markham is taking a green approach to flood control with plans to create natural infrastructure spanning five acres, roughly the size of…
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SaskWater Releases 2018-19 Annual Report
The Saskatchewan Water Corporation’s (SaskWater) 2018-19 annual report highlights a year of financial successes and demonstrates how the utility aligns with the government’s vision for…
ALUS Receives $139,850 in Funding from Lake Winnipeg Basin Program
ALUS Canada has received $139,850 in new funding from the Government of Canada’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Program. The funding will help enhance wetlands and seed…
Canada, Ontario Release Draft Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality
A draft of the proposed Canada-Ontario Agreement (COA) on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health has been released by the Government of Canada and…
Gov’t of PEI Invites Public Comments on Water Withdrawal Regulations
The public is invited to provide input on Prince Edward Islands’ (P.E.I.) new draft water withdrawal regulations under the Water Act. These regulations will control…
Andrew Vitaterna Joins Clearford as VP of Business Development
Andrew Vitaterna joined Clearford as its new vice president of business development when the company acquired ASI Water. “As VP of Business Development at Clearford, my focus…
Swim Drink Fish Opens New Citizen Science Water Monitoring Hubs
Three citizen science water quality monitoring hubs are now testing the water and sharing water quality results with swimmers and boaters on the Great Lakes…
Government of Canada Announces $1.6 Million for Coastal Research
François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of infrastructure and communities, announced that the Government of Canada is investing almost $1.6 million in six coastal research projects in…
June 2019 Update on Drinking Water Advisories
Seamus O’Regan, minister of indigenous services, has provided the department’s monthly progress update on the federal government’s commitment to end long-term drinking water advisories on…
Expert Panel Identifies Canada’s Top Climate Change Risks
An expert panel convened by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) has identified Canada’s top climate change risks. It has also determined that many costs…
Flooding in Eastern Canada Causes $208 Million in Insured Damage
The spring flooding that took place in late April and May across Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick caused close to $208 million in insured damage,…
Study Examines Why Some Cities Turn Off Pipes at Night
For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent systems” that turn on and off at various times of the…
New Report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics
Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region have released a new report on Water Management and Big Data Analytics. “We are very…
Risk Transfer can Help Utilities Manage Costs of Volatile Weather: Report
A new report highlights how water utilities can use weather risk transfer (WRT) contracts to mitigate the costs of floods, droughts, and fluctuations in water supply…
StatsCan Reports on Sewage Flows through Municipal Wastewater Systems
Statistics Canada (StatsCan) has provided information on sewage flow through municipal wastewater systems from 2013 to 2017. Just over 5 900 million cubic metres of sewage flowed through…
New Study Examines State of Local Adaptation Planning in Canada
Over the past year, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Waterloo (UW) worked with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities…
Netherlands, China Partner for New Action on Climate Crisis
China and the Netherlands have announced a new initiative to accelerate action to make China and the region more resilient to the reality of the…
Benefits to Water Quality by Planting Trees on Degraded Agricultural Land
In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Arturo Keller, a professor of environmental biogeochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, presented a hard link between…
Wastewater Facility Will Serve Both Alberta and Saskatchewan
A new wastewater treatment facility, with a total estimated cost of $81,500,000, in Lloydminster, Alberta, which borders Saskatchewan, will help protect the environment and meet…
North Okanagan Celebrates Opening of New UV Disinfection Facility
The Regional District of North Okanagan (RDNO) celebrated the official opening of its new ultraviolet (UV) disinfection facility on June 25, 2019. The facility disinfects…
Grand Forks, B.C. Receives $50 Million for Flood Mitigation Project
The Government of Canada is providing $50 million for a flood mitigation project in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary community of Grand Forks, British…
Sleeman Saves Over 5,000 Kegs Worth of Water a Day with Upgrades
The Sleeman Brewery in Guelph, Ontario is saving about 298,000 litres, or over 5,000 kegs worth of water every day, thanks to the results of…
UN: Simple & Hi-Tech solutions Needed to Address Desertification, Drought
On June 17th, World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, José Graziano da Silva, director-general, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), stressed…
Yukon Announces Launch of Open Data Portal
The territorial government of Yukon has announced easier access to valuable government information through the launch of the government’s first open data portal. This online…