An urban water system (UWS) constitutes three main service components: drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. Historically, these components have been managed in silos. Even today,…
Foundry Spatial was recognized in the Water Resources category of the 2021 Water’s Next Awards. The team at Foundry Spatial Ltd. is hoping that with…
Dawn Martin-Hill, associate professor at McMaster University, has been named the 2022 University of Oklahoma International Water Prize recipient for her commitment to improving water…
A deadline for select groundwater users in B.C. is less than six months away. March 1, 2022 is the deadline to apply for a water…
David Daniels has joined Carl Data Solutions as the vice president of Environmental Monitoring as a Service (EMaaS) Sales. “David is a proven large enterprise…
The cost of water risks to business could be over five times greater than the cost of taking action now to address those risks, according to a…
Researchers have developed a new integrated model to evaluate the economic impacts of climate change on the Canadian Great Lakes Basin. The Great Lakes are…
A McMaster-based organization that is leading global efforts to solve pressing water challenges has received a $10-million funding extension from the Canadian government. The UN University…
The University of Calgary’s Advancing Canadian Water Assets (ACWA) has partnered with Village Brewery and Xylem Inc. to produce Alberta’s first beer made with reused…
A new global initiative will use financial modelling and climate change projections to establish the business case for investing in nature. This will make it…
Sphere 3D announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Rainmaker Worldwide Inc, a global Water-as-a-Service (WaaS) provider. Pursuant to this agreement,…
The Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) at the University of Saskatchewan is partnering with Ceres to develop a new global assessment. The assessment will…
Water comes from the ground as a by-product of oil production from unconventional reservoirs. During the coming decades, this will theoretically counter the need to use…
Last week, WWF published Freshwater risks & opportunities: an overview and call to action for the financial sector, highlighting the opportunities for financial institutions to rapidly…
New research has found that in 15 major cities in the global south, almost half of all households lack access to piped utility water, affecting…
The World Resources Institute’s (WRI) updated Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas finds that 17 countries, which are home to a quarter of the world’s population, face…
Companies are reporting greater exposure to water risks yet withdrawing more water, according to new research by CDP. The report, Treading Water, analyzes water data from…
According to the United Nations, our current world population is 7.2 billion and is projected to increase by one billion over the next 12 years,…
While data is a representation of reality, the stories we tell based on that data are products of interpretation. Practitioners often debate data collection and…
The International Water Association (IWA) has appointed new IWA Fellows and Distinguished Fellows. These individual water professionals are being recognized by their peers for their…
A new large-scale hydroeconomic model has been developed by the Water Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The model will allow…
New opinion data finds that long-term water management is top of mind for many British Columbians. The findings are published in the 2018 BC Water…
A new brief from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called for an acceleration of the scope, activity, and framing of water stewardship that leverages risk…
Researchers are developing a lightweight, battery-powered freshwater harvester that could someday take as much as 37 Litres per hour from the air, even in arid…