Saturday, June 7, 2025
New Brew: Changing Mindsets So Clean Water and Industrial Growth Can Co-exist
The consumer thirst for craft beer and locally made food has been great for small businesses, creating many jobs in both large urban centres and…
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CWRA Joins Manitoba’s Lake Friendly Accord
Tom Nevakshonoff, Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship minister, and Rick Gamble, chair of the South Basin Mayors and Reeves, announced on June 3 that the…
Manitoba Kicks Off Phase Two of Fight against Zebra Mussels
Manitoba’s Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Tom Nevakshonoff announced on May 28 that the province has launched phase two of their detection and awareness campaign…
B.C. Issues Warning to Imperial Metals for Mine Tailings Breach
The Government of British Columbia issued an official warning to Imperial Metals on Sept. 9 after an inspection found the Mount Polley copper and gold…
Tapping In
Depending on where you are, it may be getting harder to buy a bottle of water. In response to concerns over the environmental, economic, and…
Cultural Interactions
Traditional users of the land have a wealth of information about that land. In the past, traditional knowledge (TK) studies have supported land and compensation…
Manitoba Reviews Operating Guidelines for Water Control Structures
The Province of Manitoba is reviewing operating guidelines for three important water control structures leading up to work on a new Lake Manitoba outlet and…
Interview: John Ralston Saul on Environment, Economics, Governance, and First Nations
In advance of his keynote presentation at the upcoming Columbia Basin Watershed Network Symposium, Water Canada spoke with John Ralston Saul, Canadian intellectual and author…
Interview: Tim Morris on B.C.’s Water Movement
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project’s first Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar of the year will take place September 26. The series is supported by the…
Top Ontario Plant at Centre of Local Controversy
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…
B.C. Could Be a Global Leader in Freshwater Protection: Report
A new report published by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia and the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria says…
The Silver Screen
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…
Manitoba: Three-year Water Infrastructure Funding for Municipalities
The Province of Manitoba has announced a three-year, $12-million project to fund wastewater systems in communities around the province. The Municipal Water Infrastructure Fund is…
Building Healthy Soil
Urban development fundamentally changes the ways by which water flows through the local environment. Without the application of best management practices to control stormwater runoff…
Lake Winnipeg Named World’s Most Threatened Lake
The Global Nature Fund has recognized Lake Winnipeg as the “most threatened lake of the year” of 2013. Lake Winnipeg, the tenth largest freshwater lake…
All Aboard
Across the video screen, zooplankton, phytoplankton, and benthos are collaborating to perform an intricate dance. After an intense two-day discussion at the Living Lakes Canada…
Manitoba Unveils Comprehensive Environmental Strategy
Manitoba continues moving forward on environmental protection with an aggressive strategy of more than 100 initiatives across government that will bolster the Province’s economy and…
The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass
Water Canada recently spoke with Canadian anthropologist, best-selling author, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis, about his new book, The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass.
Canada Water Week: What’s All the Fuss About?
Tim Morris launches our Canada Water Week series. Watch all week for more articles on events and organizations across Canada! Why am I so excited…
Going Solo
Roman aqueducts and sewers provide a powerful emblem of the antiquity of urban water infrastructure—centralized approaches to water and wastewater service provision may seem similarly…
RBC Blue Water Project Announces Leadership Grant Recipients
Twenty-two organizations, selected from 161 applicants from around the world, are sharing more than $2 million in grants for programs that help protect watersheds and…
Barrier One
Source water protection—an essential first barrier in a multi-barrier approach to safe drinking water—has been the focus of a number of recent provincial strategies, laws…
Innovate/Invest, the Water Opportunities Act
The Ontario government has promised, through the proposed Water Opportunities Act, to position the province as a major force in the global water market. In…
Wonky Policy
Canadians regard fresh water as the country’s most important natural resource—even over oil and gas and forestry, according to a recent Nanos-Policy Options public survey.…