Thursday, September 18, 2025
Whistler to Update LWMP with Gas Tax Funding
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…
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Global Demand for Disinfection Products to Rise
The Freedonia Group, an international business research company, released a statement late last month predicting an increase of 5.5 per cent in worldwide demand for…
Saint John Pursues P3 for Water Treatment System
The City of Saint John, New Brunswick, is pursuing a public-private partnership (P3) in order to fund an overhaul of its aging water treatment system.…
Feds Award Major Construction Contract for Port Granby Project
The federal government has approved a $28.8-million construction contract for a wastewater treatment plant in Port Granby, Ontario, as part of the Port Granby Project.…
Proposed Halifax Water Commission Rate Hikes Facing Public Backlash
After releasing a proposal to the Nova Scotia Utility Review Board for a two-year rate increase in January, the Halifax Regional Water Commission (HRWC) is…
Taps Don’t Create Clean Water?
Freshwater is a resource that Canadians value. According to the 2013 RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study, in fact, 47 per cent of Canadians believe that…
New Action Plan Includes Funds for Infrastructure
While yesterday’s budget announcement included new cuts to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (the department will lose $89 million in 2013-14), the federal government…
Message in a Bottle
When Dr. Sherri Mason and her team cast a net into three Great Lakes last July, scouring for debris, they weren’t sure what to expect.…
Regina Approves P3 Approach for Wastewater Upgrade
Regina’s City Council has approved a public-private partnership (P3) approach for its wastewater treatment plant upgrade. This means the City will have a single, long-term…
On Top of the World
Water has always fascinated Marcus Sheppard. After taking a course in hydrology at Wilfrid Laurier University, he looked to Sir Sandford Fleming College’s Environmental Technology…
Hydromantis and OCWA to Deliver Training Simulation Tech
Hamilton, Ontario-based Hydromantis Environmental Software Solutions, Inc. and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) have entered into a partnership to enhance water and wastewater treatment…
Golder Acquires Vancouver’s NovaTec
Golder Associates has acquired Vancouver-based NovaTec Consultants, a specialized process engineering firm, focused on industrial and municipal advanced water and wastewater treatment plant design, operations,…
Breaking the Ice
Managing sewage in Canada’s Arctic communities is very different than in the more populated southern regions of Canada. Arctic communities tend to have small populations…
Canada’s Top Water Projects 2013
For a long time, water and wastewater systems have been developed and redeveloped on a piecemeal basis, says Shane Freitag, a partner at Borden Ladner…
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,…
Curbing the Flow
Bordered by two countries, eight states, one province, and more than a hundred municipalities, the Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the planet’s…
Seprotech Shareholders Approve Acquisition of WESA
Ottawa-based Seprotech Systems has approved, subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, the proposed acquisition of WESA Group Inc., a company focused…
Water Quality Forecasting for Better Infrastructure Spending
Water resource conflicts are becoming increasingly prevalent as the intensity of competing uses of nearshore environments increases. Given the complexity of environmental systems, successfully managing…
Food and Beverage Sector Demand for Treatment to Reach $336M
As food processing plants look to reduce their water footprints, wastewater discharge, and wastewater treatment costs, the market for water and wastewater treatment equipment is…
Chrysalix Invests in Vancouver’s Axine Water Technologies
Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital has invested in Vancouver’s Axine Water Technologies, developers of a low-cost solution for treating toxic organic pollutants in wastewater. The investment…
Metro Basin Blues
Around the globe, there is concern about the effects of China’s rapid economic development on the air, land, water, and energy resources, as well as…
Ontario Helps IMAX Protect the Great Lakes
Ontario is investing in solutions in Peel Region to help protect Great Lakes water quality. IMAX Corporation is using new permeable pavement and stormwater treatment…
Wagmatcook and Gitanmaax Celebrate New Water Projects
Two First Nation communities celebrated water infrastructure grand openings last week. The Wagmatcook Band of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia opened its new wastewater treatment…
Plenty of Room at the Table
For much of 2010, Tracey Carrigan, the Regional Municipality of York’s manager of environmental education and promotion, and her close-knit team of staff and industry…