Friday, May 9, 2025
The State of Our Water Assets
Municipal and industry associations make frequent calls for government funding to replace leaky old drinking water systems, or to upgrade systems to meet incoming regulations,…
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Canada and India Partner for Safe Drinking Water
The federal government has selected the India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnership to Accelerate Transformation and Sustainability (IC-IMPACTS) as the winner of the Canada-India Research…
Rosenberg Forum Convenes to Discuss the Mackenzie River Basin
The governance of Canada’s massive Mackenzie River Basin holds enormous national and global importance due to the watershed’s impact on the Arctic Ocean, international migratory…
St. Albert Approves New Water Plan
The City of St. Albert, Alberta approved a new Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity Plan (CEPP). The long-term plan provides an overview of historical water usage, current…
Interview: David Schindler
As the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution’s biannual award winner, University of Alberta’s Dr. David Schindler was invited to write a review for the…
Harper Launches Phase Two Lake of Winnipeg Cleanup
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced federal support for the second phase of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative (LWBI) which will focus on improving water quality…
The Trickle-Down Effect
Heralded as the economic growth engine of Canada, Alberta has recently discovered that its most strategic resource may not be subsurface oil and gas reserves.…
Reading Water Gauges or Conducting Climate Science?
On May 10, 2012, Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) announced a $1.6-million, industry-funded project to study climate change adaptation for the South Saskatchewan…
2012 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grants Announced
RBC has announced its 2012 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Thirty organizations from five countries, selected from 219 applicants from around the world,…
Dilution: No Longer a Solution
As the world’s water supply becomes increasingly stressed, water quality and scarcity concerns are driving new regulations which put more emphasis on conservation practices, while…
Brock University Leads Major Water Research Network
Water researchers at Brock University have received federal funds to set-up a research network to look at the economic, political and social aspects of water-related…
Ontario and B.C. Lead in Green Provincial Report Card
Corporate Knights has released its third bi-annual Green Provincial Report Card, with Ontario and British Columbia leading the pack in the race to become Canada’s…
The Long Haul
Most of Alberta’s 3.6 million residents rely on regulated water systems. But, according to Brent Paterson*, a significant number of Albertans still use water from…
New Study Considers Water Consumption in Oil Sands
Can Alberta’s oil sands balance environmental tradeoffs and economic returns? According to a new study from Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environmental Solutions (AI-EES), there…
Getting Creative with the Law
We’re big fans of creative sentences—it’s no surprise, since Dianne helped to develop them 30 years ago. They flow from three basic observations about fines,…
New Publication Outlines Current Water “Stress Points” in Western Canada
A new publication released by the Canada West Foundation outlines a series of water challenges, or “stress points,” emerging in western Canada. Stress Points: An…
Manitoba Improves Strategy for Floods and Water Management
Manitoba is undertaking four initiatives to help improve action against floods and water management, announced the Province’s Infrastructure and Transportation Minister, Steve Ashton, this week.…
App Savvy
When Mike Scarth at the Alberta WaterPortal became interested in mobile water applications (colloquially termed “apps”), he directed summer students to research what was available.…
Interview: Peter Holmes
Vancouver-based photographer Peter Holmes was doing his political science undergrad at the University of British Columbia when he concluded that academic research was having very…
A Bitter Pill
If the brook trout swimming in Dr. Sébastien Sauvé’s laboratory tanks at the City of Montreal wastewater treatment plant smiled while his team probed their…
Canadian Water Summit Moves West in 2012
The Canadian Water Summit is moving west for the first time. The third annual event will be held in Calgary in June 2012 to explore…
Three Make Evans-Thomas P3 Shortlist
EPCOR, Plenary Environment, and SNC Lavalin/Black & Veatch have been shortlisted for the Alberta government’s Evan-Thomas Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment Facility public-private partnership (P3)…
Ecojustice Gives Feds an ‘F’ Grade for Water Protection
The federal government is still failing to ensure all Canadians have access to safe drinking water, according to a new report from Ecojustice. Waterproof 3,…
RBC Blue Water Project Announces 2011 Leadership Grants
Thirty organizations, delivering projects in five countries, will share more than $4 million for programs that help protect watersheds and improve access to clean drinking…