Sunday, September 7, 2025
Construction Starting on Key Wastewater Infrastructure in West Kelowna
The City of West Kelowna has begun an estimated $1,362,045 project to replace the Horizon Village Lift Station with a new sanitary sewer system. The…
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Will A Robot Replace Your Water Job in the Future?
There is a popular theory among North Americans that, in the future, robots might replace people in the workplace. Given self-driving cars are a reality…
2016 Water’s Next Finalists Announced
Water Canada magazine has announced the finalists of the 2016 Water’s Next Awards. The Water’s Next Awards program honours the achievements and ideas of individuals…
The Case for Federal Investments in Water Innovation and Technology
The federal government delivered its 2016 budget on World Water Day. Tabled on March 22, 2016, it included welcome water-related commitments, including funding to rebuild…
P3, An Effective Model for Renewing Water Infrastructure
There is widespread consensus that Canada’s water systems are in urgent need of investment, replacement, and renewal. For many cities and communities, however, the upfront…
New Study Shows That Hydraulic Fracturing is Causing Earthquakes
A group of Canadian researchers have published new research that points to hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells, not wastewater disposal, as the cause…
Stantec to Acquire Colorado-Based Engineering Firm MWH Global for $1.04 Billion
Stantec Inc. has announced a merger with Broomfield, Colorado-based MWH Global—the biggest deal in the engineering and infrastructure design consulting companyt’s 62-year history. The Edmonton-based…
Ontario Environment Commissioner Recommends Full-Cost Water Pricing
Today, Ellen Schwartzel, acting environmental commissioner of Ontario, released the Commission’s Annual Report for 2014-2015 entitled, “Small Things Matter.” In it, the commissioner recommended that…
Montréal Wastewater Debacle a Matter of Necessity
What started as a measure of preventative maintenance, escalated into a federal election issue. News that the City of Montréal was set to release eight…
Alberta Funds Drinking Water and Wastewater Projects
The Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater Partnership (AMWWP) and Water for Life have announced the recipients of grants to support drinking water and wastewater projects across the…
Researchers use sewer sludge in concrete
Municipal wastewater treatment produces vast amounts of sludge that is expensive to dispose. That’s why researchers in from Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia are working…
WWF-Canada supports targets to reduce algae in Lake Erie
A statement released this week by 14 groups from Canada and the U.S., including World Wildlife Fund Canada, says that cutting phosphorous in Lake Erie…
British Columbia Funds Wastewater Professionals Training Study
The Province of British Columbia is providing $50,000 in funding to the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC (ASTTBC) to ensure consistent licensing standards…
Canadian Water Network Invests in Research to Integrate Traditional and Western Knowledge
The Canadian Water Network (CWN) is investing nearly $200,000 in a research project aimed at addressing the disproportionate burden First Nations communities in Canada face…
Feds Announce Plan for $300M for Water and Wastewater on Reserves
The federal government has announced the plans for a $330.8-million investment over two years for First Nation water and wastewater systems on reserve. The funds…
Look Before You Leak
As the infrastructure deficit exceeds capital and operational budgets, the leaders in charge of Canada’s municipal water and wastewater assets and operations are being asked…
Curbing the Flow
Bordered by two countries, eight states, one province, and more than a hundred municipalities, the Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the planet’s…
Food and Beverage Sector Demand for Treatment to Reach $336M
As food processing plants look to reduce their water footprints, wastewater discharge, and wastewater treatment costs, the market for water and wastewater treatment equipment is…
Metro Basin Blues
Around the globe, there is concern about the effects of China’s rapid economic development on the air, land, water, and energy resources, as well as…
FCM Wants Long-Term Plan for Wastewater Upgrade Funds
Meeting the new federal wastewater regulations is an important national project that requires a national funding plan supported by all orders of government, according to…
Feds Implement Wastewater Effluent Regs
After over three years of discussion, including very public feedback the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association, the federal government…
Dilution: No Longer a Solution
As the world’s water supply becomes increasingly stressed, water quality and scarcity concerns are driving new regulations which put more emphasis on conservation practices, while…
Senate Passes Bill S-8
The Senate has passed Bill S-8, the Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act after its third reading last night and will now move to…
Proposed Wastewater Deal a First for City of Regina
The City of Regina recently approved a recommendation for a 45-year deal to supply Western Potash Corpwith the City’s treated wastewater. The arrangement to supply…