Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Nanaimo begins major water supply upgrade
Nanaimo, B.C. – With construction expected to begin this summer on the Mid-Town Water Supply Project, the City of Nanaimo will begin falling trees along…
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Canada and New Brunswick invest in water supply infrastructure
The Government of Canada is investing over $2.2 million to upgrade the water supply infrastructure in two rural New Brunswick communities through the Green Infrastructure Stream (GIS). As Canada moves toward…
Vancouver completes excavation for Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel
Metro Vancouver announced that tunnel excavation is now complete at the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel. This is an important infrastructure project that will make…
New Research Recommends Systematic Approach to Forest and Water Supply Management
New research from UBC Okanagan suggests a systematic approach to forest and water supply research may yield an improved assessment and understanding of connections between…
New Partnership Aims to Drive Corporate Action to Protect Global Water Supply
The Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) at the University of Saskatchewan is partnering with Ceres to develop a new global assessment. The assessment will…
Water Supply at Risk for 1.9 Billion People Worldwide: Study
New research has found that water towers, which provide water resources to 1.9 billion people globally, are at risk due to the threats related to…
SaskWater Signs Water Supply Agreement with City of Meadow Lake
SaskWater and the City of Meadow Lake have signed a water supply agreement that includes the sale of the city’s water treatment plant to the…
Cowichan Valley Regional District Receives Funding for Water Supply Study
A major grant from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Province of British Columbia will enable the Cowichan Valley Regional District to explore the…
Expansion of Community Water Supply System in B.C. Comes to a Halt
The Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) proposed expansion of the community water supply system infrastructure cannot proceed as a result of a decision related to…
Aecon and Traylor Bros Awarded Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel Contract
Aecon Group Inc. announced today that a joint venture between Aecon and Traylor Bros Inc. has been awarded a $267-million contract by Metro Vancouver’s Greater…
Memorandum of Understanding Delivers Water Supply to Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation
The federal government and the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will deliver water to the communities of Esowista and Ty-Histanis.…
Iqaluit City Council Takes Action on Water Supply Concerns
Last week, Iqaluit’s city council was updated on the city water supply and other water related issues, including the proposed amendment of bylaw 200, which…
Iqaluit City Council Acts on Looming Water Supply Issues
As Water Canada reported last June, Nunavut faces a water security crisis. In his third term, Iqaluit city councillor Joanasie Akumalik has renewed city council’s…
Achieving SDGs Essential to Curb Global Water Stress, Water Supply Risk
New research identifying climate vulnerability hotspots has found that the number of people affected by multiple climate change risks, such as water supply risk, could…
Nfld. Communities Working to Remove Debris from Public Water Supply
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment is working with the Town of Deer Lake and the Town of Reidville on plans for…
Capital Regional District Approves Regional Water Supply Strategic Plan
Yesterday, the Capital Regional District (CRD) Board endorsed the Regional Water Supply Strategic Plan. The plan went through a public engagement process beginning in June…
New Water Supply Project to Save Campbell River $16.5M
The City of Campbell River, B.C., has announced that its new water supply project will reduce the cost of future water system upgrades by an…
Kelowna to Save $95M with Integrated Water Supply Plan
The City of Kelowna has released its 2017 Kelowna Integrated Water Supply Plan (KIWSP), which re-assessed its 2012 Plan and followed the original guiding principles…
Alberta Researchers Model Water Supply & Water Scarcity
Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed an agro-hydrological model to study water supply in Alberta’s 2,255 sub-basins and to better understand water scarcity.…
Ontario Investing $1.5 Million to Improve Moosonee’s Water Supply
Ontario is providing the Town of Moosonee with up to $1.5 million to help replace water mains and sanitary sewer mains—part of the government’s expanded…
Muskoday First Nation in State of Emergency Over Water Supply
The Muskoday First Nation have declared a state of emergency as the community’s water supply has been shut off for four days due to the…
New Water Supply and Service Agreement Reached with Dalhousie
A new 10-year water supply and service agreement for the Town of Dalhousie, New Brunswick has been reached with the provincial government. Post-Secondary Education, Training…
Greater Victoria’s Water Supply Deemed Highly Vulnerable To the Threat of Wildfires
This week, the Capital Regional District warned that Greater Victoria’s water supply is highly vulnerable to the threat of wildfires, should those fires occur in…
IJC Reports Success in Preserving Great Lakes Water Supply
The International Joint Commission (IJC) released a report this week summarizing the progress made to fulfill the recommendations of a 2000 commissions study on the protection…