Ontario’s Grand River contains elevated concentrations of artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin, and acesulfame, according to a study conducted by researchers from the…
On December 4, Mississauga City Council heard recommendations for a new stormwater user rate to improve funding for flood and water quality protection. An approved…
Guelph, Ont. announced November 7 that it is launching a Stormwater Funding Study to look into alternative methods for funding its stormwater management program, which…
The Government of Ontario announced on November 1 its plans to help protect drinking water sources in small provincial municipalities. Nearly 200 communities will receive…
Parks Canada is off the hook following a third party investigation into their actions during the 2013 Gull River flooding. The review found that staff…
On October 29, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative sent letters asking regulators and industry to commit to cleaning up microplastics in the…
The Orleans area in Ottawa’s east end saw a spat of water main breaks in recent weeks, which are disrupted traffic and caused water to…
The City of Waterloo council approved moving forward with upgrades to the Colonial sanitary pumping station on October 21. The Ontario city’s two-year project will…
The Huron Elgin London Projects (HELP) Clean Water initiative, a regional project that will serve the water needs of more than 500,000 residents in southwestern…
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has announced a Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF) loan of $10 million and a grant of $1 million for the…
Yesterday, Bill 6, the proposed Great Lakes Protection Act 2013 passed its second reading in the Ontario Legislature. The proposed act, if passed, would would…
Nestlé Canada Inc. has withdrawn its appeal to the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal concerning restrictions applied to its renewed permit to take water in Hillsburgh,…
Wilfred Laurier University will mark the opening of its new Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science on October 11 with an event featuring remarks…
The Randle Reef sediment remediation project, a $138.9-million strategy for cleaning up contaminated sediment in Hamilton Harbour in Ontario, took a significant step forward September…
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced that the Province’s new Small, Rural and Northern Municipal Infrastructure Fund is now accepting applications. The program, part of…
Ontario is using penalties collected from environmental violations to fund 10 projects to restore and protect the environment. Projects being funded include waterway habitat improvements,…
London, Ontario-based water purification technology company Purifics ES Inc has supplied the University of Toronto Drinking Water Research Group with a Photo-Cat (Photocatalysis) Laboratory System…
The Lethbridge Herald released an open letter from the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association (CDHA) on September 18, expressing the organization’s support for community water fluoridation.…
End Fluoride Toronto, a group “fighting to get fluoride medication out of Toronto’s water supply,” according to its website, is holding a peaceful assembly outside…
In the wake of flooding caused by the July 8 rainstorms in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the City of Mississauga has unveiled a number…
Ottawa’s Orleans Watermain Link project is underway, with lane reductions already in place on the Vanier Parkway and Coventry Road as of August 19, and…
A number of environmental groups are celebrating an Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal decision that requires a proposed agreement between Nestlé and the Ontario Ministry of…
While an Ecojustice report card recently named Pickering, Ontario’s Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant one of the province’s finest, the plant is at the…
Ecojustice, a Canadian environmental charity, has released a new report ranking 12 Ontario municipalities on their ability to minimize sewage pollution in the Great Lakes…