History in the Making

November 9, 2009 - 10:36 am

"Without clean, reliable water, we cannot build, we cannot farm, we cannot grow and we cannot prosper," said California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last Friday, as he signed into law a "historic package to reform and rebuild California’s water system." The editor of our sister magazine...

Tags: California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, ReNew Canada, water rates, Winnipeg

WEF Launches New Website

November 2, 2009 - 8:51 am

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) has just launched its redesigned website. Complete with the new look (and some excellent photography), the site includes a new search feature that allows easier access to water quality information, research and news. The launch completes the second of a two-phase...

Tags: Facebook, social networking, Twitter, Water Environment Federation, WEF

The Yuck Factor

October 30, 2009 - 7:53 am

At WEFTEC a few weeks ago, I was invited to attend a Black & Veatch-hosted roundtable discussion with more than a dozen water and wastewater industry leaders, mostly from the United States municipal sector. Professor Robert Glennon, a water law professor at the University of Arizona, opened...

Tags: Black & Veatch, cloud seeding, Dan McCarthy, desalination, Orange County Sanitation District, reallocation, Robert Ghirelli, Robert Glennon, water recycling, water reuse

China's New Regs: Good for Canadian Cleantech

October 26, 2009 - 11:42 am

An article in today's New York Times consults XPV Capital's David Henderson (a regular CWT contributor, click here for "Opportunity Knocks") and Alan McMillan of Omazo Ventures, a technology incubator firm also based in Toronto, and chairman of BX Jishu, a Chinese clean-technology distributor...

Tags: Alan McMillan, BioSpec Global Solutions, BX Jishu, China, cleantech, David Henderson, ENPAR Technologies Inc., Omazo Ventures, ultraviolet, UV, water treatment, ZENON Environmental

In Bloom

October 7, 2009 - 6:58 am

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” says Oded Distel, director of Israel NEWTech (Novel Efficient Water Technologies). When it comes to Israel’s water supply, he’s dead-on. The country that brought modern drip irrigation to the global market continues to innovate, making the best of its water...

Tags: Avi Broder, BDB Technologies & Hi Tech Investments, Booky Oren, Brian Berkowitz, Canada Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation, Canadian-Israeli partnerships, Catherine Gosselin, CIIRDF, cleantech, Clear Flow Consulting, inistry of Environmental Protection, Israel, Israel NEWTech, Jerusalem, Nablus River, Novel Efficient Water Technologies, Oded Distel, Tahal Group, TaKaDu, wastewater, wastewater reclamation, WATEC 2009 Conference, Weizmann Institute of Science, Zero Liquid Discharge

“Sheer Folly”: CCS and Groundwater

September 28, 2009 - 2:24 pm

“Pumping compressed carbon dioxide into an earth pin-pricked with holes in inherently risky,” reads last week’s Globe & Mail article about the new study (pdf) from the Munk Centre at University of Toronto. When I noticed a curious advertisement on the back cover of The Walrus a number...

Wastewater Strategy Concerns Municipalities

September 25, 2009 - 12:24 pm

“Some municipalities have been incredibly responsible and placed a real priority on sewer and wastewater treatment,” said Minister John Baird in an interview with ReNew Canada’s Ottawa correspondent, Guy Félio, recently. “Some have let it slip.” Proposed federal wastewater regulations are...

Tags: Basil Stewart, Building Canada Fund, Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, Canadian Water and Wastewater Association, FCM, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Guy Félio, ReNew Canada

We've Moved

September 4, 2009 - 1:40 pm

After a week of moving boxes and waiting for internet connections, Canadian Water Treatment has a new home in downtown Toronto. Please feel free to drop us a line! 218 Adelaide Street West, Third Floor Toronto, Ontario  M5H 1W7 Watch for the latest issue to drop in mid-September. Enjoy the long...

Fighting for Aquifers

August 25, 2009 - 8:12 am

“In the farming communities of the Simcoe Lowlands surrounding Elmvale, Ontario, pure spring water emanating from artesian flows is cause for celebration, and a unique opportunity for environmental education,” wrote Dr. William Shotyk last year. “How many people on Earth have the tremendous...

Tags: Alliston aquifer, Anishinabe Kweag, Beausoleil First Nation, Dalton McGuinty, Elmvale Foundation, Elmvale Water Festival, Georgian Bay, MacDonald Creek, Maude Barlow, Ralph Nader, Shannon, Site 41, Stephen Ogden, Stop Dump Site 41, Vicki Monague, Walkterton, William Shotyk

Ravensview Complete

August 17, 2009 - 12:22 pm

After three years, Utilities Kingston’s upgraded Ravensview Water Pollution Control Plant is now online. This weekend, the Kingston Whig Standard published several articles on the plant, deemed one of North America’s “most environmentally responsible wastewater treatment plants,” and the...

Tags: anaerobic sludge digestion, biological aerated filters, cogeneration, LEED, Ravensview Water Pollution Control Plant, secondary treatment, Utilities Kingston, wastewater treatment