Thursday, May 1, 2025
Water-Energy Wins in San Francisco
Seattle-based Hydrovolts has taken the top prize of this year’s Imagine H2O competition, the theme of which was the water-energy nexus. The winner and runners…
News
Most Canadians Have “No Concept” of the Real Value of Water: Study
While the majority of Canadians (55 per cent) continue to believe that fresh water is the country’s most important natural resource and say they are…
Report: Canada’s Boreal Houses World’s Largest Water Source
Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on-land carbon storehouse, contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem, says a new report from Pew…
Poll: Should Senate Pass Bill S-11?
This week, Senate held its last days of hearings for Bill S-11, the First Nations Drinking Water Safety Act, which proposes that water quality on…
Water Committee Calls for More Rigorous Objectives for Oil Sands
In a report released March 7, Alberta’s water monitoring data review committee recommended comprehensive monitoring, more rigorous scientific analysis, and new monitoring objectives in order…
Canadians Celebrate Bottled Water Free Day
Canada and several other countries marked the second Bottled Water Free Day on March 10. “Canadians are rejecting the privatization of public water resources and…
IJC Recommends Focus on Human Health Concerns for Great Lakes
The International Joint Commission provided 32 recommendations for action at the federal, state, provincial and local levels of government in its 15th biennial report, released…
McGill Researchers Develop Silver Nano Filter
Chemistry researchers at Montreal’s McGill University have developed a key step towards making a cheap, portable, paper-based filter coated with silver nanoparticles to be used…
Canadian Experts Meet in Ottawa
Canada’s water experts are now increasingly needed to help countries elsewhere brace for drought, flood and unsafe water problems looming on a 15- to 20-year…
Canada Out of Step with Safe Drinking Water: Report
Roughly 10 years after the Walkerton outbreak, much of Canada remains out of step with the international leaders in adopting management systems for assuring safe…
Feds Invest in More Lake Simcoe Restoration Projects
The federal government announced on Tuesday that 19 projects will receive funding under round six of the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund. “Since 2008, the five-year…
Singapore and Ontario to Collaborate on Clean Water Tech R&D
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, and the Government of Ontario have officially agreed to enter into a strategic alliance to conduct advanced clean water research…
Quebec Woman Honoured for Water Work in Mali
Today, at the 2011 Canadian Edition of its Women of the Earth Awards, the Yves Rocher Foundation honoured three women for their commitment to preserving…
Prominent Hydrologist Joins Oil Sands Monitoring Panel
Howard Wheater, a world-renowned expert in hydrological science and water quality, has joined the provincial panel tasked with creating a world-class environmental monitoring system for…
FCM Honours Water Projects in Alberta and PEI
Two Canadian water projects received honours at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) 2011 Sustainable Communities Awards yesterday in Victoria, British Columbia. “This year’s award…
Threats to Groundwater Supplies Require Coordinated Response: Paper
Better oversight of Canada’s groundwater resources is required in the face of numerous challenges, according to a study released today by the C.D. Howe Institute.…
Xebec Turns Sewage into Clean Energy
Blainville, Quebec-based Xebec Adsorption Inc.is using its new technology to purify biogas from a wastewater treatment facility in California. The new biogas purification plant at…
Okanagan Releases Water Use Reporting Tool
The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) unveiled its homegrown Streamlined Water Use Reporting Tool (SWURT) to the public last Friday in West Kelowna, British Columbia.…
Alberta to Survey Groundwater Supply
Low-flying helicopters will be mapping 18,000 square kilometres of underground water resources in southern Alberta, starting February 5. Residents and motorists may notice helicopters towing…
Water Disclosure Added to Canadian Water Summit Agenda
Executive Chris Hedemann from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Water Disclosure will be coming to Canada to share insights into how water measurement is changing…
MB Hydro Commits Funds for Lake Winnipeg Research
Manitoba Hydro has committed more than $1.35 million over six years to help fund further research into ongoing water quality and biological changes in Lake…
Manitoba to Spend $22M Fighting Floods
Manitoba will invest $22 million in equipment and technology to improve flood-fighting capacity and preparedness as it faces the potential for widespread spring flooding, Premier…
ENPAR Partners with Chile’s InTechnology
Guelph, Ontario-based ENPAR Technologies Inc. has entered into an MOU with InTechnology Chile Ltda to develop markets in Chile and other Latin-American countries for ENPAR’s…
St. Lawrence: A Prozac Nation for Fish?
Around one in four Montrealers take some kind of antidepressant, and according to new research, the drugs are passing into the waterways and affecting fish.…