On November 13, the governments of Canada and Manitoba announced funding for five water and wastewater projects to take place in communities in the southeast…
The Government of Manitoba announced on October 21 an investment in improved flood protection for residents of the community of Red Deer Lake. The Red…
Urban flooding—increasingly prevalent with climate change—causes extensive economic, health, social, and environmental issues. Internationally, jurisdictions including Canadian municipalities are establishing stormwater utilities to mitigate the…
The Province of Alberta has committed to two new flood mitigation projects aimed at protecting High River and Calgary after heavy flooding affected the two…
The Province of Manitoba is making major investments in water level regulation and the flood water management system along the lower Assiniboine River, including Lake…
An Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change review may result in a sewage pollution notification system for the City of Toronto. The review…
The federal government—through the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)—will invest in Canadian innovation that will play a key role in the first-ever global survey of surface…
The Manitoba government announced on August 6 its support of the new Assiniboine River Basin Commission, and a contribution of $50,000 toward initial startup activities.…
The Government of British Columbia released two reports concerning flood risk along the Fraser River on July 11. The reports can be used to support…
Canada’s water challenges and the ways provinces and territories address those challenges can be so similar yet entirely unique. Each jurisdiction’s positions on issues of…
The City of Brandon, Manitoba, will receive federal and provincial funding to enhance its flood protection system after the Red River Floodway Expansion Project came…
The St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences received a donation of $50,000 from the RBC Blue Water Project. The donation will help the River…
With the 2013 Calgary and Toronto floods still fresh in our minds, and the bone-chilling cold of the polar vortex lingering well into spring, Canadians…
In an effort to protect the province’s water resources, Manitoba announced its first comprehensive Surface Water Management Strategy along with multi-year surface water management investments.…
Five Canadian cities will have portions of their asphalt roads ripped up and replaced with permeable brick and gravel this summer in an effort to…
What happens when data streams from an intensely instrumented watershed are combined with next-generation analytics in a high-powered computing environment? The answer is an unprecedented…
The Government of Alberta will move forward with flood mitigation efforts along the Elbow and Highwood Rivers, according to an April 29 press release. The…
Flood season is underway in the Prairies, as two Manitoba communities, the Town of Birtle and the Waywayseecappo First Nation, have started evacuating their homes…
If a pipe bursts underground, does it still show up on your bill? Thanks in part to inattention and years of relatively cheap water rates,…
Manitoba families can better protect their homes from basement flooding thanks to a subsidy from the provincial government, the city of Winnipeg, and other rural…
On the surface, the grate is inconspicuous— it doesn’t appear to be any different than all the other sewer grates in the city of Toronto. The…
A record setting amount of more than $190 million in water damage claims were paid out in 2013 by insurance company Aviva Canada. This is…
The provincial government and the federal government have promised Manitoba $42 million to improve flood protection measures. The majority of the money will come from…
According to the seventh annual RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study, three-quarters of Canadians—or 74 per cent—agree that climate change will cause heavy rainstorms, snowfall, and…