Saturday, June 7, 2025
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…
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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…
SPONSORED: Parks Canada deploys four SENTRY systems in Alberta and British Columbia
SENTRY is now providing Parks Canada wastewater treatment operators with the ability to remotely monitor wastewater treatment plant performance in real-time at four park locations…
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…
New Lands Complete Protection of Next Creek Watershed in B.C.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has acquired 7,900 hectares of rare inland temperate rainforest in the South Selkirk Mountains, encompassing most of the Next…
WWF-Canada Pleased With Gov. Investment in Water Monitoring
After years advocating for improved water quality and providing recommendations to decision-makers, WWF-Canada has announced it is pleased to see the Government of Canada will…
AquaHacking Goes to Okanagan for 2019–20 Competition
The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) has announced that it is joining forces with Aqua Forum to bring, for the first time, the national AquaHacking…
White Rock Water Treatment Plant Now Fully Operational
The City of White Rock, B.C.’s Water Treatment Plant has completed construction and is now fully operational, producing excellent water quality results, according to the…
Paving the Way for Innovation at Blue Cities
Many municipalities, companies, and organizations have specific drivers for adopting innovation. These stakeholders also typically face barriers when adopting innovative solutions. A session that took…
What Bill C-69 Means for Navigable Waters in Canada
Last Thursday Senators voted to pass Bill C-69, which contains changes to Canada’s laws pertaining to impact assessment, energy regulation, and protection of navigable waters.…
Alberta Provides Information on Springbank Reservoir to Regulators
Alberta Transportation has taken steps to forward regulatory approvals of the Springbank Reservoir project by responding to formal questions from provincial and federal regulators. An…
Level 3 Drought in Okanagan Region and Across B.C.
Warm and dry conditions have prompted the British Columbia to announce a Level 3 drought for much of the province, including the Okanagan region. Low…