With just about every good or service, including some essential services, people decide how much of it they want based on its cost. When gas prices go up, car drivers decide whether or not they want to [...]
Posted on 19 August 2010 · Written by Mira Shenker
With just about every good or service, including some essential services, people decide how much of it they want based on its cost. When gas prices go up, car drivers decide whether or not they want to [...]
Posted on 27 August 2010
The B.C. government has approved a wastewater management strategy proposed by the Capital Regional District (CRD) that will for the first time treat up to 40 billion litres of sewage per year before it [...]
Posted on 24 August 2010
As we reported in our May/June issue, the City of Dawson Creek, B.C., and Shell recently reached an agreement to build the City’s Reclaimed Water Plant (RWP). This 10-year agreement is subject to elector [...]
Posted on 24 August 2010
A computer model developed to determine the amount of water resources required for agricultural land in the Okanagan now and in the future is helping identify, develop, and protect long-term agricultural [...]
Posted on 24 August 2010
Water conservation efforts in Manitoba will be further improved with the development of a new strategic plan by Manitoba Water Stewardship and the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable [...]
Posted on 18 August 2010
Liberal members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development today released their report from the committee’s study of the impact of oilsands development [...]
Posted on 16 August 2010
The City of Windsor has signed on to become one of Ontario’s first municipal participants to connect its water and wastewater facilities to the next generation of smart grid services. The City [...]
Posted on 09 August 2010
Last Wednesday's Council of the Federation results announced that Canada's Premiers have endorsed what the Western Premiers agreed to back in June: a Canada-wide Water Charter. The Premiers agreed to [...]
Lots of shuffles within cabinets in the past week, some of which may affect water policy. In Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty has transferred former Minister of the Environment John Gerretsen to [...]
On the evening of July 14, there was a power failure at a water filtration plant on the Ottawa River. The next day, the City of Gatineau issued a news release warning residents to boil their drinking water [...]