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Rainfrastructure

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Urban flooding—increasingly prevalent with climate change—causes extensive economic, health, social, and environmental issues. Internationally, jurisdictions including Canadian municipalities are establishing stormwater utilities to mitigate...

Diagnosis: Stream Sickness

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Are Toronto’s streams sick? Yes, many of them are. They are suffering from an “illness” known as urban stream syndrome (USS), which results from...

Ontario Releases Watershed Report Cards

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Coinciding with Canadian Water Week (March 18-24) and World Water Day (March 22), Ontario’s conservation authorities have begun releasing watershed report cards, which detail...

Building Healthy Soil

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Urban development fundamentally changes the ways by which water flows through the local environment. Without the application of best management practices to control stormwater...

Mayors Make Declaration on Water Sustainability to Protect Great Lakes and St. Lawrence

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This week, mayors from Québec, Ontario and the United States made a Declaration on Water Sustainability, committing to common sustainable water management practices to...

The Case for Green Infrastructure in Ontario

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A new report by the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition says that green infrastructure offers tangible, cost effective ways to meet the challenges of urbanization and climate...

The Big Leap

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment (MOE) developed the York Durham Sewage System (YDSS) to convey sewage from York...

Deloitte Report: The Era of Cheap Water is Over

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Clearer water pricing will play an important role in how customers better manage their water usage, says a new report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu...

How-To Strategies

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Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate...

Interview: Aleid Diepeveen

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In advance of Ontario’s Global Water Leadership Summit last week, Water Canada spoke with Aleid Diepeveen, director of the innovation program in water technology...

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