The University of Manitoba has received a Government of Canada investment through the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support the…
When it comes to water, the food and beverage industry is facing some major challenges. According to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF),…
Regina’s $224-million wastewater treatment plant upgrade will be funded through a public-private partnership (P3). After many weeks of debate, residents of Regina went to the…
In late June, southern Alberta was struck by heavy rainfalls that caused three of the province’s rivers to flow five to 10 times their normal…
City of Regina Mayor Michael Fougere and Regina Water Watch spokesman Jim Holmes held public debates on consecutive nights—September 18 and 19—in Regina, as they…
The federal government has announced investments in water and wastewater treatment system improvements in five British Columbia First Nation communities – Metlakatla First Nation, Esk’etemc…
Edmonton-based professional services company Stantec Inc. unveiled a new brand on September 10, with a goal to reinforce the company’s “design with community in mind”…
Israel might be over half-desert, but aside from the sand, it’s not exactly easy to tell the country suffers from intense heat and prolonged drought.…
Earlier this month, the City of Saskatoon and Vancouver-based Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. officially opened Canada’s first commercial nutrient recovery facility at the city’s…
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…
Representatives gathered yesterday to celebrate ongoing work on Phase 1, 2 and 3 of the Greater Sydney Area Wastewater Collection Project, an initiative that will…
The Province of Manitoba and the City of Thompson will partner to conduct a study of the options available for upgrading the city’s wastewater treatment…
Montreal’s Laurentian Bank has announced its participation in a consortium that will provide financial assistance to N-Viro Systems Canada LP for the purposes of constructing…
Regina has set a tentative date for Regina’s referendum over funding models for a new wastewater treatment plant. City council has earmarked September 25 as…
The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and City of Penticton are extending an existing relationship of shared services and opportunity to include the disposition of some…
Water makes a significant contribution to Canada’s electricity needs. But the water-energy story is more complicated than the provision of hydropower. At the community level,…
If you work in a wastewater treatment facility, you know better than to flush a toilet containing anything that isn’t water, human waste, or toilet…
International water and wastewater treatment company BluMetric has opened up shop in Barrie, Ontario, from where it will serve the City of Barrie and Simcoe…
Not much is known about the health impacts of silver nanoparticles. Often employed for its antibacterial properties, nanosilver fights potentially harmful bacteria in consumer products…
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…
Toronto-based UV Pure Technologies has announced an engineered solutions partnership with newterra. The Brockville, Ontario-based company provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions to the…
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, which specializes in industrial wastewater treatment, has secured a contract from Teck Resources Limited to conduct pilot scale testing of its…
When Albert van Roodselaar, a manager in Metro Vancouver’s utility planning department, says British Columbia is “totally different” from Canada’s other provinces, it doesn’t come…
Quebec’s draft regulation respecting municipal wastewater treatment works will be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on May 15. It is subject to a…