On December 13, Manitoba Minister of Municipal Government, Stan Struthers, announced the completion of four water and sewer infrastructure projects in central-Manitoba with the help…
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, is monitoring sediment released from a decommissioned coal mine to ensure the safety of their water supply. The…
On July 6, shortly after midnight, a freight train carrying 7.2 million litres of light North Dakota crude to a New Brunswick refinery derailed in…
The Huron Elgin London Projects (HELP) Clean Water initiative, a regional project that will serve the water needs of more than 500,000 residents in southwestern…
The Rural Municipalities of Kindersley and McKillop in Saskatchewan are each receiving funding from the provincial and federal governments to improve their water and wastewater…
Despite its name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is not just doctors without borders. When recent Ph.D. Syed Imran Ali became involved with the organization, he…
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have renewed an agreement ensuring the collection, processing, publication and distribution of water quantity data in the province.…
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project’s first Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar of the year will take place September 26. The series is supported by the…
End Fluoride Toronto, a group “fighting to get fluoride medication out of Toronto’s water supply,” according to its website, is holding a peaceful assembly outside…
While an Ecojustice report card recently named Pickering, Ontario’s Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant one of the province’s finest, the plant is at the…
Montreal taps were running a tad muddy after a pump at one of the city’s six water treatment plants malfunctioned in May. But a rapidly…
Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency has announced funding to rehabilitate part of the M1 Canal, which extends from Lake Diefenbaker to Broderick Reservoir, near Outlook. The…
Facing drought is a growing necessity. In the United States, drought ranks second or third of natural disasters, depending on the year, in terms of…
Saskatchewan has announced the opening of another water supply system. Just days after the Town of Cupar opened the door to its new water treatment…
Manitoba’s CentrePort industrial development will draw its water from the Assiniboine River, said Manitoba, City of Winnipeg, and CentrePort officials on Monday. Originally, the City…
Albertans might support the XL Pipeline as a means to move one resource out of the province, but at the same time, there’s a struggle…
Work is well underway on a major $7.5-million water and sewage infrastructure project in Watson Lake, Yukon. The project is being jointly funded by the…
Ahead of British Columbia’s Provincial General Election on May 14, Chilliwack’s WaterWealth Project, a non-partisan, citizen-driven organization that aims to protect the region’s freshwater supply,…
Whistler’s wastewater treatment system, already among Canada’s most sophisticated, will receive $50,000 in gas tax funding for a project that will see the municipality review…
As southern Saskatchewan continues to brace itself for a heavy spring run-off, the provincial government has offered free testing of private drinking water sources, provided…
Restore Our Water International (ROWI) and Sierra Club Canada have released criticism of the International Joint Commission (IJC) Draft Great Lakes Regional Adaptive Management Plan…
The District of Lake Country in British Columbia says it has completed a substantial improvement of its water supply and quality systems. The Wood Lake…
On April 9, Alberta’s Environmental Appeals Board began a hearing to decide whether to overturn an Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development decision to pull…
Residents of Edmonton have noticed an unusual taste and smell to their water over the past several days, and have made their displeasure known to…