Thursday, May 1, 2025
New Herbicide-Fertilizer Ban Protects Alberta’s Water
A new ban on herbicide-fertilizer combination products in Alberta will help protect the quality of water downstream of urban areas. As of January 1, 2010…
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EcoWater Canada Receives Zerofootprint Certificate
EcoWater Canada has received a Certificate of Emissions Compliance from Zerofootprint. This analysis looked at the carbon footprint of the water softeners and Reverse Osmosis…
Cobourg Applies for Water Plant Upgrade
Cobourg council has pushed through a federal grant application for the last $1.3 million in upgrades to the water pollution control plant, reports the Northumberland…
Public Clean Water Hearings Re: Phosphorus
Public hearings will be held next month on how to reduce the amount of phosphorus going into Mississquoi Bay and Lake Champlain along the Canada…
Sanitation and Satellites: Weekend Water Thoughts
As you leave for the weekend, take a few moments to consider the important role that water plays in sanitation–the World Toilet Organization’s World Toilet…
Aquatic Informatics and Greenspan Alliance
Aquatic Informatics and Greenspan have announced an alliance between both companies to offer an environmental data acquisition and management system. Under the terms of the…
Global Environment 60 Index Launched
KLD Indexes and Jantzi Research, Inc. have announced the introduction of the Global Environment 60sm Index. KLD and Jantzi developed the GE60 to support investment…
HTO Launches at The Blue Barracks
This past Sunday, HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets launched at Historic Fort York’s Blue Barracks with moderator Matthew…
The Future of Bottled Water is Unclear
California’s Calistoga Beverage Co. (parent company is Nestlé Waters North America) has cut 78 per cent of its workforce, citing a “softening in demand for…
Yellowknife Summit Draws Concerns on Water
Aboriginal leaders, scientists and environmental activists from across Canada are talking this week about water quality at a national summit in Yellowknife, reports CBC News.…
Poor Results in Water, Waste and Greenhouse Gases Worsen Canada’s Environmental Ranking
Canada’s environmental record is one of the worst-standing 15th out of 17 developed countries- according to the latest Report Card on Canada: How Canada Performs:…
Niagara Tries Chlorine-Free Sewage Treatment
Onita Basu, an Ottawa professor, wants to eliminate chlorine from municipal sewage treatment using an organic replacement called peracetic acid, reports St. Catharines, Ont.’s The…
Premier Tech Partners with Croisières AML to Treat Ship Wastewater
Premier Tech has announced that it will partner with Croisières AML in a project for treating wastewater from ships. In May 2007, the federal government…
WWF-Canada Partners with Coca-Cola on Freshwater Conservation
WWF-Canada and Coca-Cola Ltd. have announced a three-tiered partnership to conserve freshwater and fight climate change. One of the tenets is a four-year, $1-million commitment…
Global Opportunities for Canada: Conference Board
“The biggest challenge is to bring Canada’s widely dispersed technologies together, so that Canadian companies can compete on a global scale, and ultimately become more…
H2O Innovation Signs $9.4 Million Contract
H2O Innovation Inc., a Canadian company specializing exclusively in water technology, has won a bid launched by Petro-Canada Oil Sands Inc. on behalf of Fort…
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…
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…