Wednesday, July 30, 2025
WRI to Measure Water Risks and Opportunities
Think tank the World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with General Electric and Goldman Sachs, has launched an initiative to measure water-related risks facing companies…
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Demand for Treatment Products to Reach US$59B by 2013
World demand for water treatment products is projected to increase 5.7 percent per year to US$59 billion in 2013, well above the rate of economic…
MB: New Rules Affect Failing Private Wastewater Systems
Provincial efforts to improve Manitoba’s environment with a focus on Lake Winnipeg have taken another step with the proclamation of a strengthened Environment Act, Conservation…
More Great Lakes Funding Dispersed
This morning the federal government announced $410,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for four projects to clean up the Detroit River Area…
Managing the Ultimate Asset
“Thirsty cities will not grow,” says Sharon Nunes, VP of IBM’s Big Green Innovations, imparting wisdom she’s come across at the World Council for Sustainable…
Water IT Market to Grow
Water information technology (IT) is a US$530-million market today, with potential to address a US$16.3-billion market in 2020, according a new report from Lux Research.…
Five Projects for St. Lawrence River Funded
Officials announced today $290,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for five projects to clean up the St. Lawrence River (Cornwall) Area of…
BioteQ Signs Contract for Seasonal Whitehorse Plant
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc. will design and build a water treatment plant in Whitehorse at the Minto copper mine owned by Minto Explorations Limited.…
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…
$1M for Healthy Waterways: M.B.
Manitoba is strengthening its strategy for healthy waterways with an investment of $1 million to protect and restore wetlands including its largest marshes, Water Stewardship…
Funds Announced for Lake Winnipeg Clean Up
More than $109,000 in federal funding will support the Morden Community Lead Environmental Action on Nutrient Elimination and Removal (CLEANER) project, an initiative that will…
Seizing the Opportunity
There’s no denying the opportunity: China’s economic resurgence and subsequent infrastructure investments have led many Canadian cleantech companies to look for ways to take advantage…
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…
CANTEST Wins Manitoba Contract
CANTEST Ltd., an analytical and testing laboratory, has won a three-year contract with Manitoba Water Stewardship to provide microbiological testing of drinking water from all…
TRIUM to Investigate Bentonite
TRIUM Environmental Solutions Inc. has received funding from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program. The $150,000 contribution will support the Cochrane,…
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…
$93.3M for York, Durham Wastewater Improvements
The governments of Canada and Ontario have set aside a total of $93.3 million in funding to support the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant…
Cold Snap
Just south of the Arctic Circle in the small Nunavut hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet—or in Inuktitut, Igluligaarjuk—a sewage truck dumps its potent—smelling load into a…
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…
BioteQ Commences Raglan Operations
BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. has announced that it has commenced water treatment operations for the 2009 season at its Raglan plant, located in Nunavik (Northern…
More Experts Call for Great Lakes Amendments
Another group is campaigning for renegotiation of the “outdated” Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Great Lakes United, a cross-border group of 38 leading Great Lakes…
FCM Honours Well Aware
Winners of FCM’s 2009 Awards for Outstanding International Volunteer Contribution and the 2009 FCM-CH2M HILL Sustainable Community Awards were honoured this weekend at a recognition…
FLOW Brings Attention to Transboundary Issues on IJC Centennial
Boundary Waters Week (June 5-14) will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty with a series of events in Niagara Falls, but the…