Sunday, September 7, 2025
The Other 99 Per Cent
“If you can’t measure, you can’t manage.” This mantra, well known and oft-repeated, couldn’t be truer than in recent years, especially as the potential for…
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Growing Together
As water infrastructure deficits grow and standards become more stringent, communities across the country are wondering how they’ll cope with the added costs of maintenance…
The Long Haul
Most of Alberta’s 3.6 million residents rely on regulated water systems. But, according to Brent Paterson*, a significant number of Albertans still use water from…
NORAM Acquires Position in ECOfluid Systems
NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd., a company specializing in the fields of nitration, sulphuric acid, and electrochemistry, has purchased a position in British Columbia-based ECOfluid…
Stantec Wins for Ottawa’s RTC System
Stantec’s water team in Ottawa has been honoured with the Environment Award for their real time control (RTC) system for the City of Ottawa’s combined…
Researchers Discover Resistance in Ontario Freshwater
McMaster University researchers have discovered that floc–“goolike” substances that occur suspended in water and that host large communities of bacteria–also contain high levels of antibiotic…
The Top 100: Water Breakdown
Water and wastewater projects have a decent presence in the 2012 edition of ReNew Canada’s Top 100: Canada’s Biggest Infrastructure Projects, released this week. Seven…
Deconstructing “Deleterious”
Located near the mouth of Rivers Inlet, north of Port Hardy on the central coast of British Columbia, the floating Rivers Lodge is one of…
Trojan Acquires OpenCEL
Trojan Technologies has acquired the business assets of OpenCEL of Glencoe, Illinois. OpenCEL is an environmental biotechnology company that offers a proprietary technology which significantly…
New Construction, Upgrades Approved for Kananaskis Country Facility
Kananaskis Country’s Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area will soon see water and wastewater treatment plants and upgrades. “This community has seen a lot of growth and…
Anaergia to Locate in Ontario
Ontario will host the new global centre for Anaergia Inc., a company that uses technology to produce biogas and natural gas energy from wastewater and…
Reform Utility Financing: Brubaker
Too many drinking water and wastewater systems across Canada threaten public health and the environment, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe…
Blue Gold Canada Signs Mexico Agreement
Toronto-based Blue Gold Canada has signed an MOU with Hasar’s Grupo Ecologico that outlines plans to install a wastewater treatment plant at the Hasar’s landfill…
Xogen Aims to Go Global With Pilot Plant
Xogen Technologies is expecting that its new pilot plant will generate global interest. Now operational in the Town of Orangeville’s Water Pollution Control Plant, the…
Ridgeline to Build Treatment Facility in B.C.
Ridgeline Energy Services Inc., a provider of environmental solutions to oil and natural gas producers based in Western Canada, has entered into an agreement to…
ITT to Develop Standalone Water Tech Company
ITT Corporation announced last week that it plans to separate its businesses into three distinct, publicly traded companies. Under the plan, ITT would execute tax-free…
Reuse It or Lose It
Canada depends on its water for agricultural, industrial, and domestic uses—but does it use more than it needs? A report from the Conference Board of…
Water Figures Heavily in Top 100
Water and wastewater has a significant presence in this year’s edition of ReNew Canada’s Top 100: Canada’s Biggest Infrastructure Projects, released this week. Nine projects…
BC Bioenergy Network Funds MicroSludge Demo
The BC Bioenergy Network, a provincially-funded leader supporting the growing bioenergy sector in British Columbia, will fund Elemental Energy Inc. to demonstrate Paradigm Environment Technologies’…
Guelph Uses Methane Gas from Wastewater to Fuel Vehicles
The City of Guelph’s transit, planning and environmental services come together for a new pilot project that will allow the City to fuel its fleet…
BioteQ Wins China Canada Business Excellence Award
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a company that specializes in the treatment of industrial wastewater, has received the Business Excellence Award for Outstanding Innovation and Best…
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…
Guelph Champions Wastewater Optimization
The City of Guelph’s wastewater services staff is sharing its expertise with municipal wastewater treatment plant operators and managers aspiring to learn more about wastewater…
Sea Change
Victoria has faced decades of criticism for failing to treat its sewage before pumping it into the Pacific Ocean, releasing often-harmful materials into the marine…