Friday, July 4, 2025
A Low-Cost Way to Remove Valium from Wastewater
A low-cost, efficient one-step method to remove the anxiety drug Diazepam from recycled water and wastewater, using titanium dioxide nanofibers has been developed by researchers…
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Lake Erie Action Plan to Reduce Phosphorus Loads by 40%
The governments of Canada and Ontario have released the final Lake Erie Action Plan. The plan identifies more than 120 federal, provincial, and partner actions…
Island Water Technologies Receives $500K in Seed Capital
Island Water Technologies Inc. (IWT) has announced a $500,000 seed capital investment by Island Capital Partners and Natural Products Canada for water technology commercialization. The…
Ontario Launches Cleantech Strategy with an Emphasis on Water
Yesterday, Reza Moridi, Ontario’s Minister of Research, Innovation and Science launched the new Cleantech Strategy, which includes renewed support for existing accelerator programs, such as the…
Privatization Risk and Rewards
The tension is mounting in Britain. While Labour Party politician John McDonnell promises to renationalize public sector services, including water, due to the “scandalous” payouts to…
Improving Rural Wastewater with Short-Rotation Willow Crops
Saskatchewan has discovered the wisdom of an old bioremediation tool for dealing with overburdened rural wastewater treatment systems: short-rotation willow coppice (SRWC). At the recent…
District of Sechelt, BC’s Water Resource Centre Certified LEED Gold
The District of Sechelt’s Water Resource Centre has been certified LEED Gold, in part for the innovative use of a greenhouse to help filter wastewater.…
Proponent Selected for CRVD Residuals Treatment Facility
A proponent has been selected to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain (DBFOM) the Capital Regional District (CRD) Residuals Treatment Facility located at the Hartland…
REGEN BAF Case Study: Wastewater Lagoon Upgrade
Location: PEI, Canada, July 2017 There are over 6,000 wastewater lagoon treatment systems currently in operation across North America. Lagoon infrastructure is a reliable and…
OECD Releases Environmental Performance Reviews of Canada
In its third Environmental Performance Review of Canada, the OECD has released its latest analysis of Canada’s progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with…
District of West Kelowna Begins Construction of Outfall Expansion
On Friday, the District of West Kelowna announced that construction had begun on a $3.5-million project at the Westside Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will…
Duffin Creek Plant Finds Way Forward on Phosphorus Reduction
Ontario’s York and Durham regional municipalities have completed a study requested by the province’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change on strategies to further improve…
Canadian Companies Selected to Participate in Int’l Accelerator Program
Imagine H2O has announced the startups that will take part in the 2018 accelerator program, including two Canadian firms, Island Water Technologies and H2nanO. From…
Four New Projects Funded Under CWWF in Alberta
The governments of Canada and Alberta are investing in Alberta water and wastewater services, with four new projects being funded by the Clean Water and…
Canada Submits 3rd Biennial Report to United Nations on Climate Change
On December 29th, Canada submitted its 7th National Communication and 3rd Biennial Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The government noted…
Top 5 Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis Water Stories 2017
Photo credit: Joe Bryksa, Winnipeg Free Press. 1. National knowledge gaps on water and health In February, Water Canada reported on new research from the…
Municipal Water Sector Achieved $652B in Revenues in 2017
Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Global Outlook of the Water Industry suggests that the global water market for the year 2017 is estimated to have $652.4…
Parliament’s Watchdog Delivers Assessment of Investment Needs for First Nations
In early December, Parliamentary Budget Officer Jean-Denis Fréchette released a report that documented the government’s shortfall in spending to deliver on the 2015 campaign promise…
Canada Announces $1B for Retrofits to Reduce Carbon Emissions
On December 15th, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced that the Government of Canada will provide over $1 billion from the…
Fish Exposed to Treated Wastewater Demonstrate Altered Behaviour
A team of researchers from Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada and McMaster University have found that fish living downstream from a wastewater treatment plant…
Stantec Hires New Wastewater Engineer for Canada-U.S.
Stantec welcomes Dr. Mehran Andalib to lead the firm’s wastewater engineering practice in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. and Eastern Canada. Based in Boston, Ma.,…
Canada Invests $1.2M in National Water Projects
Yesterday, Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and Jenny Gerbasi, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) announced funding for 72 initiatives in…
CRD Select Proponent for Residuals Treatment Facility
Hartland Resource Management Group (HRMG) has been named Preferred Proponent for the Capital Regional District (CRD) Residuals Treatment Facility. The project will be delivered under…
First Nations Water and Wastewater Under-Resourced in Federal Budget
The Parliamentary Budget Officer, Jean-Denis Fréchette, released a report today analyzing federal spending on drinking water and wastewater treatment on First Nations reserves. In it, he…