Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Draft Boron Guidelines Available for Review
A draft version of Canadian Water Quality Guideline for the Protection of Aquatic Life – Boron, based on a scientific criteria document contributed by Ontario…
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WWF: Canadians Using Three Times Share of Global Resources
Human demands on the world’s resources have reached nearly a third more than planet can sustain, according to the latest edition of WWF’s Living Planet…
Montana to Acquire PWS
Montana Mining Corp. has announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Produced Water Solutions, Inc., based in Calgary. PWS has designed,…
Portage Denies Univar Canada Price Increase
Portage City Council has rejected a request for an increase to the amount paid for phosphoric acid from Univar Canada, reports PortageOnline.com. The company issued…
Clean Water for Orangedale, N.S.
Sally Chisholm, the chair of the Orangedale Water Society said Wednesday that after years of waiting, the rural Inverness County community in Nova Scotia should…
RBC Announces 2008 Blue Water Project Leadership Grant Recipients
RBC has announced its latest round of RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Twelve organizations, selected from 206 applicants from across North America, will…
Water Undervalued: ECO Report
“The Ontario public needs and deserves to be confident that our environmental protection systems are actually doing the job – but there are clearly areas…
Barlow Appointed Senior Water Advisor for UN
Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and founder of the Blue Planet Project, has been appointed as the first senior advisor on…
Seprotech Announces Expansion
Seprotech Systems Inc., a water and wastewater treatment systems manufacturer, announced at WEFTEC (Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference) that it will be expanding…
Building a New Walkerton Clean Water Centre
Construction is underway on the new Walkerton Clean Water Centre. The new, energy efficient building will increase the centre’s capacity to conduct training, seminars, information…
Health Canada: Bisphenol A on Toxic Substances List
Canada is taking steps to prevent importation, sale and advertising of polycarbonate baby bottled containing bisphenol A (BPA). While BPA is not an issue for…
Whitehorse Gives Takhini North $1M Tab for Upgrades: CBC
Residents in the Takhini North neighbourhood of Whitehorse will have to fork over at least $1 million to help cover a $9-million upgrade to its…
Toronto Boosts Water Rates
The City of Toronto might boost water rates by nine per cent on January 1, the fourth straight year of nine per cent-plus fee hikes,…
Calgary Water Hike: Herald
A plan to hike Calgarians’ water bills by 25 per cent over the next three years is on its way to council after a city…
School Board Seeks Bottled Water Alternatives: Orangeville Citizen
Municipalities aren’t the only bodies considering bottled water bans: now schools are in on the action. The Orangeville Citizen reports that the Upper Grand District…
BIOREM Introduces New Biofiltration Media
BIOREM Inc. announced today a new biofiltration media called XLD, the result of five years of extensive research and development with the support of the…
Federal Party Leaders Plans for Great Lakes Protection
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (GLSLCI) sent questionnaires to five political parties; four were returned. “Given the national and international importance of…
$7.7M Contract for Havelock Wastewater Plant Awarded
On Tuesday, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen’s council has awarded the contract to build the municipality’s new wastewater treatment plant to Brighton-based Peak Engineering and Construction, reports The Community…
Alberta, GE to Improve Water Use at Oilsands
The Alberta government is partnering with General Electric to improve water treatment and reuse in the province’s oilsands projects, which consume enormous volumes of fresh…
GLV Grows Business in U.S.
Management of GLV Inc. has announced that in recent weeks, the Water Treatment Group (Eimco Water Technologies) has been awarded several major contracts worth a…
Team Led By SickKids Scientist Develops Water Safety Strategy
The drinking water of Bangladesh, known to be contaminated with toxic agents, can be addressed, according to an international team of volunteer researchers, led by…
Sooke’s Wastewater Plant Benefits Environment
The District of Sooke’s new wastewater treatment system, developed in partnership with EPCOR, is reducing contaminants and providing environmental benefits to Sooke Harbour. A recent…
Federal Water Quantity Report Made Available
The Council of Canadians and MiningWatch Canada have made public a report drafted by Environment Canada in December 2007 revealing that the agency had documented…
Make Crumbling Water Infrastructure a Priority: OSWCA
The Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association (OSWCA) is urging MPs and political parties to make the state of water and sewer infrastructure an issue…