Saturday, July 12, 2025
Vancouver Adopts Rain City Strategy to Manage Stormwater
Vancouver City Council has voted to adopt the Rain City Strategy, which reimagines how the city manages stormwater using green infrastructure. “As residents of a…
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Resilient Vancouver Strategy Launched by City of Vancouver
The City of Vancouver has launched Resilient Vancouver, a multi-year strategy aimed at enhancing the capacity of the city’s neighbourhoods, government, and infrastructure to serve its…
Metro Vancouver Launches Unflushables Campaign
Metro Vancouver launched its third annual Unflushables campaign. The campaign reminds residents not to flush wipes and other items like hair, floss, and tampons down their…
Researchers Aim to Fill Knowledge Gap on Stream Flows on Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island University (VIU) researchers are taking a deeper look at snow packs in unique alpine forested watersheds on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia…
Vancouver Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project Receives Gold Rating
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has announced that the New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project has received a gold rating under the Stewardship Centre for…
Vancouver Waste Digester Harvests Greywater from Cannabis Production
Vancouver-based Micron Waste Technologies Inc., a developer of waste digesters for food and cannabis waste, has reported positive results from the optimization of the Cannavore™…
Vancouver Drinking Water Technology Receives NSF Certification
Vancouver-based Acuva Technologies Inc, a provider of UV-LED drinking water purification technology with products for OEM appliance integration as well as systems for home, cottage,…
East Vancouver Island Drought Condition Raised to Level 4
Yesterday, B.C.’s Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development announced that the drought condition of East Vancouver Island had been elevated to…
Vancouver Accelerator Centre Appoints New Director
Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre announced that Jeanette Jackson has been appointed as its new managing director. Ms. Jackson will be responsible for strategic and operational…
Vancouver Approves Coastal Flood Planning and Water Infrastructure
Vancouver’s City Council has approved three recommendations to help prepare the city’s vulnerable areas for sea level rise by planning for and implementing coastal flood…
Ocean Wise and Metro Vancouver Partner on Microplastics Research
A study jointly conducted by Ocean Wise and Metro Vancouver, and published in the scientific journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, found microplastics shed from laundered clothing a…
Vancouver’s Carl Data Solutions Pursues AI to Improve Water Systems
Vancouver-based Carl Data Solutions Inc. has announced that its Polish subsidiary will develop artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor aging critical infrastructure and improve water systems.…
Vancouver Launches its Adopt a Catch Basin Program
Vancouver has over 45,000 catch basins removing excess water from streets during rainfall events. Acknowledging that the city can only do so much to remove leaves, debris, and…
Vancouver Completes Rehabilitation of Tidal Wetland
A new tidal wetland in New Brighton Park in east Vancouver has been created to improve access to nature for park visitors, and provide habitat…
Vancouver Provides Free Waste Removal to Improve Water Quality
The City of Vancouver and the Park Board have launched a free mobile pump-out service in False Creek to increase access to sewage disposal facilities…
Vancouver Mining Firm Sets Water Reuse Strategy
Vancouver’s Goldcorp Inc. has released a report that details in part its water conservation strategy, Towards Zero Water, with the aim to reuse and recycle…
Vancouver Firm Takes Metering Technology to South Africa
Vancouver’s QMC has signed a service contract to provide meter reading, data collection, and reporting services to Apex Innovation for its submetering business in South…
Vancouver Entrepreneur to Receive Mitacs Award for Slurry Treatment
A Vancouver entrepreneur has commercialized a new approach for treating dairy farm manure and sewage sludge and will be recognized with an award from Mitacs,…
Vancouver Housing Crisis Adds Pressure to Water Quality
In support of the City’ of Vancouver’s goal to protect waterways and the environment, Vancouver council approved new actions to strengthen the protection and reduce…
Metro Vancouver Launches Unflushables Campaign
Metro Vancouver is rolling out a new campaign, The Unflushables, in hopes of educating residents to stop dumping items down the drain that clog the…
$525M Contract for Metro Vancouver Wastewater Treatment Plant, B.C.
Metro Vancouver has awarded the contract for the new Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant to ADAPT Consortium at a cost of $525 million. Construction…
Climate Change to Strain Vancouver Water Resources & Infrastructure
A report from Metro Vancouver, with contributions from Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and Pinna Sustainability, warns that climate induced temperature changes in the Metro area…
Toronto Begins Resilience Initiative, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver Next
The City of Toronto in conjunction with 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) has launched a major effort to improve Toronto’s resilience to the shocks and stresses…
Vancouver Aquarium Wins National Water Wise Award
The Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating (CIPH) has awarded the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre with its National Water Wise Award for the Aquarium’s…