With the announcement of the proposed Water Opportunities Act in yesterday's Speech from the Throne, the Ontario government is setting the province on a path to become a global leader in water technology [...]

Whether it’s a drinking water or wastewater treatment system, the ultimate goal for water utilities is always optimum performance. Most operators generally know where the problems are, and may even know [...]

Ontario's Township of Centre Wellington will receive funds for source water protection via the federal Infrastructure Stimulus Fund. Support of up to $1.8 million will be devoted to improve municipal [...]

As winter approaches and the threat of black ice returns, cities once again find themselves facing the age-old question of salt use. Sure, salt is cheap and effective, and it makes roads safer [...]

A new green building report, sponsored by the Mechanical Contractors Education and Research Foundation, the research arm of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), profiles a water conservation [...]

The District of West Vancouver’s Eagle Lake Membrane Filtration Facility has won the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of BC (APEGBC) Environmental Award of Excellence for 2009 [...]

The Association of Ontario Municipalities’ annual conference was a chance for some municipal leaders to ask questions about—what else—stimulus funding. But it was in the media scrum that the real [...]

Several recent events have highlighted how much our communities depend on our infrastructure to enable us to go about our daily lives. In Toronto, two large sinkholes (one five metres in diameter and [...]

Re: Smelly cities—looks like I spoke too soon. Just days after I posted about Halifax's stinky sewage dilemma, Toronto's Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) went on strike, causing interruptions [...]

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has announced 17 new grants totaling more than $84,000 under its Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) Initiative. Operating since 1990, ACT provides [...]