The City of Kingston’s Breakwater Park won a Canadian Society of Landscape Architects’ (CSLA) 2019 National Award of Excellence in the category of medium-scale public…
Yesterday, Powell River, BC, announced that its design for a new wastewater treatment facility is almost complete. The final two decisions—the conveyance route from Westview…
Federation of Canadian Municipalities president Jenny Gerbasi issued the following statement after leading Canada’s municipal delegation at the COP23 climate change conference, hosted by Fiji…
Mississauga’s Planning and Development Committee has expressed their support for Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017, and endorsed city staff’s comments on the…
Ottawa continues to produce and deliver some of the highest quality and safest drinking water in the world, according to a report received by the Environment and…
Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) has reported that spring 2017 storm and flooding events in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec resulted in more than $223 million in insured damage, according to Catastrophe Indices…
Yesterday, World Water Week began with events and programing in Stockholm, Sweden, led by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). “World Water Week is a…
On June 28th, Tay Township, Ontario, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to acknowledge the completion of upgrades to the Victoria Harbour Wastewater Treatment Plant. Construction began…
After its June 29th meeting, York Regional Council of Ontario has announced a number of energy consumption successes, including reductions to its wastewater inflow and…
The Town of High River received an Award of Merit on June 19 at the annual Building Resilience Conference in Calgary for the 2015 High…
The Ontario Water Works Association (OWWA) has recognized the City of Guelph’s leadership in water conservation with a 2017 Award of Excellence in Water Efficiency…
On Wednesday, Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver, announced its partnership with 100 Resilient Cities and with representatives from 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) – pioneered by…
The Alberta government announced on World Water Day that it will invest nearly $12 million in multi-year grants for watershed planning and advisory councils, including…
The City of Campbell River, B.C., has announced that its new water supply project will reduce the cost of future water system upgrades by an…
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has released its recommendations for the federal government’s 2017 budget, which includes an emphasis on continued investment in water…
Colwood, B.C., has decided to postpone a $2 million environmental assessment report that was being conducted to understand the feasibility of discharging effluent into the…
In its recent newsletter, the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) announced that its 2017 is underway, with a first draft presented at its September board…
The City of Richmond in British Columbia has adopted a new strategy for guiding decisions regarding the city-wide system of natural areas and the ecosystem…
Residents in the Takhini North neighbourhood of Whitehorse will have to fork over at least $1 million to help cover a $9-million upgrade to its…
The Province of Ontario announced this week it is taking a major step to address the effects more than 200 years of human activity have…