Wednesday, August 20, 2025
WaterTAP Report: Water Cleantech Vital to Meet GHG Targets
Yesterday, Ontario’s WaterTAP released a new report at the GLOBE Forum 2018, Water: The next frontier on the path to a low carbon economy, which asserts that…
News
SFU Research Strengthens Link Between Low-Level Lead Exposure and Heart Disease
New research from Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Health Sciences has strengthened the connection between low-level exposure to lead and cardiovascular disease. While municipalities have…
New Study Presents Tasting Notes for Recycled Wastewater
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have published the results of a study on how people perceive the taste of recycled wastewater in…
Federal Support for Green Infrastructure & Other Water Projects
The Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have announced 67 initiatives across Canada that will receive funding to support work on…
Nestlé & Guelph Share Data to Improve Science-Based Decision Making
At the request of the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC), the City of Guelph has signed a reciprocal agreement with Nestlé Waters…
Economic Discussion Paper Addresses Financial Incentives for LID
Ontario’s Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) has developed an economic discussion paper entitled, Economic Instruments to Motivate Stormwater Management on Private Lands, which grew out of…
Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund Invests in Water Systems
Ontario has announced that 78 communities will be receiving support for a variety of projects, including replacement and rehabilitation of water systems, through the Community…
The Federal Gas Tax Fund Makes a Splash in B.C. Water Projects
Returns from the federal Gas Tax Fund have made a large impact on municipalities in British Columbia. Combined, East Kootenay, Nanaimo, Nelson, North Cowichan, and…
National Bioretention Standards Under Review
Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff using grass buffer strips, sand beds, ponding areas, organic layers, plants,…
Winnipeg Enhances Transparency on Capital Projects with Open Data
The City of Winnipeg has launched new open data tools that will help members of the public learn more about capital projects underway and still…
Regional HELP Clean Water Project Wraps After 14 Years
On Friday, Mayor Matt Brown of London, Ontario marked the successful completion of the HELP Clean Water (Huron-Elgin-London Project Clean Water) project, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar regional…
Halifax Charter Amended, Making Way for Wastewater Energy Reuse
Nova Scotia’s Municipal Affairs Minister Derek Mombourquette introduced amendments to the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter on March 8th that will impact wastewater energy reuse in…
Alberta Seeks Input on North Saskatchewan Regional Plan
Albertan residents are invited to provide input on land use in the North Saskatchewan Region, which will directly impact watershed management in the province. The…
Nova Scotia to Revise Aquaculture Regulations with New Fisheries Act
With the introduction of its Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act today, the Government of Nova Scotia is revising aquaculture regulations to improve outcomes for the…
Kamloops, BC Begins Stakeholder Consultations on Biosolids Strategy
Kamloops, B.C. has commissioned a stakeholder group to review a potential biosolids strategy that would determine the best uses for the approximately 12,500 tonnes produced…
Method Proposed for Closing the Data Gap on How Cities Manage Water
With Cape Town moving towards Day Zero, the question of how cities manage water is drawing greater attention from decision-makers and the public internationally. Currently,…
Industry Funding Renewed for Fertilizer Best Management Practices
The North American fertilizer industry has pledged $6 million to continue research on ways that farmers can strengthen fertilizer best management practices (BMPs) to reduce nutrient…
Facing the Dragon of Asset Management
I somewhat jokingly like to call myself an asset management evangelist. My super power is that I can turn any conversation into one about asset…
NWT to Receive $200M Over Ten Years for Green Infrastructure
The governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories are forwarding infrastructure for Northern Canadian communities, with over $200 million for green infrastructure projects devoted to reducing greenhouse gases, climate…
Water Canada Launches a New Comic about FATBERGs
Water Canada and the Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group (MESUG) have partnered with Illustrator Nathan Wright and KSB Pumps (Canada) to presents a fresh, new comic…
Hacking Chloroplast Reduces Water Use in Agricultural Crops
Scientists have reduced water evaporation from plants by manipulating a component of the chloroplast that harvests light. The research was undertaken to find a way…
Slate Falls Nation Ends 11 Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories
Slate Falls Nation has opened a new water treatment plant, allowing the Nation’s Band Council to lift 11 long-term drinking water advisories (DWAs) that had…
Double Disinfection Treatment for Safer Drinking Water
In spite of good progress in water hygiene during the recent decades, contaminated water still causes millions of diseases every year. Most of these diseases…
Complimentary Webinar: Maximize Your Cooling Tower Efficiencies
Introduction Water from cooling towers attracts and absorbs airborne contaminants on a continuous basis. Typically, 85% of suspended solids in cooling water and hot water…