Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Western Premiers Agree to Water Charter
The Western Premiers have been a busy bunch during their two-day conference in Vancouver. Yesterday, they discussed a new strategy to conserve and manage Canada’s…
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Innovate/Invest, the Water Opportunities Act
The Ontario government has promised, through the proposed Water Opportunities Act, to position the province as a major force in the global water market. In…
Full Cycle
It may come as a surprise to some within the water industry, but the practice of water reuse and recycling has been around for about…
Toronto Launches Water Meter Program
The City of Toronto officially kicked off its Water Meter Program yesterday with the installation of the first automated water meter in a residential home…
2010: Year of Water Investment
As growing pressures combine to force investments in water infrastructure and technology of up to US$1 trillion every year between now and 2030, Jens Peers,…
Public Campaign Promotes Conservation
A coalition of environmental, industry, labour and community organizations as well as individual Ontarians launched a public campaign today to advocate that the provincial government…
New Meters for Abbotsford
Abbotsford, B.C. is implementing a new remote read metering system with a contribution of $1.27 million from the Gas Tax Fund. Currently, the City of…
Guelph Introduces Rainwater Rebate
The City of Guelph, Ontario continues to blaze a trail in water conservation and efficiency. Just a few weeks ago, the City defined vulnerable local…
NL Opens Water Portal
A new application that allows public access to a variety of water resources data, including information on the quality of drinking water, was launched last…
EPCOR Supports Decade of Action
As part of its effort to increase the public’s understanding of water scarcity issues in Canada, EPCOR Utilities Inc. is supporting the United Nations’ Water…
Guelph Identifies Protected Areas, Unveils Efficiency Rebates
The City of Guelph, Ontario made two big announcements yesterday. Firstly, the City has identified vulnerable local water supply source areas in need of protection,…
NAWS Project Ruled in Manitoba’s Favour
The U.S. District Court has again ruled in favour of Manitoba in its case against the Northwest Area Water Supply (NAWS) project, Water Stewardship Minister…
$10M for Quebec Water Infrastructure
The municipality of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies will receive over $10.5 million in joint funding under the Communities component of the Building Canada Fund–Quebec, for drinking water supply,…
Alberta Requires Water Allocations Improvements, Says Report
As the province begins closing some of its basins to new allocations, the Alberta Water Council is calling for improvements sooner than later to better…
CCME Adopts Canada-Wide Vision for Water
Federal, provincial and territorial ministers met in Kingston last week and endorsed a Canada-wide strategic vision for water, which outlines how Canadian Council of Ministers…
ENPAR Enters into Asian Joint Venture
Dr. Gene Shelp, president and CEO of Guelph, Ontario-based ENPAR Technologies Inc., has announced that ENPAR has entered into a joint venture with AsiaCo, a…
In Bloom
“Necessity is the mother of invention,” says Oded Distel, director of Israel NEWTech (Novel Efficient Water Technologies). When it comes to Israel’s water supply, he’s…
The Public Good
It seems that the loudest and most contentious debate around drinking water is the whether and to what extent private, for profit, entities should be…
$10.5M for Quebec Water Infrastructure
Quebec’s Municipality of Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds will receive $10,561,102 in joint government financial assistance under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec to carry…
Nackawic Water, Wastewater Study
The federal and provincial governments are joining the Town of Nackawic, New Brunswick in investing a total of $41,535 to study how to improve water…
History in the Making
For over 250 years, the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia has been associated with water. Located on a peninsula southwest of the provincial capital of…
Filtration Funds for Gracefield, QC
The City of Gracefield, Quebec will receive a joint federal-provincial investment of $2.8 million under the Provincial-Territorial (PT) Base Fund. This investment involved the construction…
Cottage Life
The wild streams and rivers of rural Canada look clear and crisp enough to drink directly from the source, but thirsty cottagers beware: the potential…
Trojan Wins Stockholm Industry Water Award
London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies, a developer and proponent of large-scale ultraviolet (UV) water disinfection systems used worldwide, has won the 2009 Stockholm Industry Water Award.…