Saturday, May 3, 2025
Imagine H2O Finalists Announced
The judges for the first-ever Imagine H2O Prize have chosen ten finalists of the global competition. Created to help find sustainable solutions to global water…
News
Global Water Experts to Meet in Canada
More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Ontario from February 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach…
Sustainable Stormwater Management
Stormwater management has become an increasingly challenging issue for urban communities. In many cases, rainwater can no longer follow its natural patterns, which increases the…
Seair Sells to Oil Sands Operation
Edmonton-based Seair Inc. has sold six large industrial water treatment units to an oil sands facility for use in treating groundwater prior to mining. The…
A Five-Year Plan for Petitcodiac
Petitcodiac Riverkeeper’s five-year strategic plan to protect and restore New Brunswick’s Petitcodiac River watershed was released on Friday, presenting the organization’s vision for the river…
KSB Opens Montreal Office
KSB Pumps Inc. has opened a new regional office in Montreal that will focus on customers and consulting engineering firms in Quebec. Located nearby Montréal-Trudeau…
WRI to Measure Water Risks and Opportunities
Think tank the World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with General Electric and Goldman Sachs, has launched an initiative to measure water-related risks facing companies…
$10M for Quebec Water Infrastructure
The municipality of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies will receive over $10.5 million in joint funding under the Communities component of the Building Canada Fund–Quebec, for drinking water supply,…
Awash with Potential
Jurisdictions around the world are increasingly recognizing that sound water management is the foundation for economic and community prosperity. From growing and preparing our food…
Demand for Treatment Products to Reach US$59B by 2013
World demand for water treatment products is projected to increase 5.7 percent per year to US$59 billion in 2013, well above the rate of economic…
MB: New Rules Affect Failing Private Wastewater Systems
Provincial efforts to improve Manitoba’s environment with a focus on Lake Winnipeg have taken another step with the proclamation of a strengthened Environment Act, Conservation…
BioteQ Wins Export Award
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. has received the 2009 Canada Export Achievement Award for the Pacific Region. Presented by Export Development Canada and PROFIT Magazine,…
Winnipeg Sees SEWPCC Commitments
Today marked a three-level commitment of support for improvements to the existing South End Water Pollution Control Centre in Winnipeg. The project involves improvements to…
PDS Marks Growth Spurt
Pathogen Detection Systems, Inc. (PDS), an Ontario startup company founded on university researchers’ determination to find a faster, more effective way to monitor municipal water…
EDC Report Highlights Water Treatment
Canadian companies are uniquely well-positioned to respond to the global infrastructure boom because of their experience in finding infrastructure solutions in some of the harshest…
DGI to Acquire MFC Division of Mueller Canada
Canadian-owned Deschenes Group Inc. (DGI) has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire the Mueller Flow Control (MFC) division of Mueller Canada Ltd. from Anvil…
GLV Acquires Christ Water
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced yesterday that it has finalized its $39.8-million investment in Quebec company GLV Inc., as part of…
Myths and Legends
Myth #1: Water is a public good. Water is essential to life. Therefore, some argue, it should be considered public. Food is also essential to…
Alberta Requires Water Allocations Improvements, Says Report
As the province begins closing some of its basins to new allocations, the Alberta Water Council is calling for improvements sooner than later to better…
Full-Cost Pricing Necessary, Says Report
Consumers must pay for every unit of water they use, and the price must reflect the cost of supplying it, the Conference Board of Canada…
Report Highlights Water Technologies for Green Buildings
A new green building report, sponsored by the Mechanical Contractors Education and Research Foundation, the research arm of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA),…
GLOBE Nominations Now Being Accepted
Nominations for the 2010 GLOBE Awards are now being accepted. The awards will be presented next March during the GLOBE 2010 Conference and Trade Fair…
$12M for Oxford, Includes Water Infrastructure
Feds announced today that the County of Oxford, Ontario has been approved for more than $12 million in low-cost loans from CMHC’s Municipal Infrastructure Lending…
More Great Lakes Funding Dispersed
This morning the federal government announced $410,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for four projects to clean up the Detroit River Area…