Today's biggest water news started with a morning announcement from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). In partnership with FCM, IBC is offering the Watershed Awards—a new annual awards program to [...]
Posted on 11 February 2010
Today's biggest water news started with a morning announcement from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). In partnership with FCM, IBC is offering the Watershed Awards—a new annual awards program to [...]
Posted on 11 February 2010
The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), in partnership with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), this morning announced the Watershed Awards, a new annual awards program to recognize Canadian [...]
Posted on 04 February 2010
Hot on the heels of last week's sewer overflows, the City of Ottawa has released a plan to clean up and protect the Ottawa River. Based on recent consultations with residents across the City of [...]
Posted on 21 December 2009
Stormwater management has become an increasingly challenging issue for urban communities. In many cases, rainwater can no longer follow its natural patterns, which increases the volumes of runoff and its [...]
Posted on 24 August 2009
Growing up in Nova Scotia, I spent many of my summer days swimming in Canada’s Ocean Playground. At the time, the biggest worries were the occasional jellyfish and the undertow. Thoughts of ear infections [...]
Posted on 11 August 2009
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 [...]
Posted on 08 July 2009
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are partnering in the EQuilibriumTM Communities Initiative to provide support and promote leading edge sustainable neighbourhood [...]
Posted on 27 May 2009
Residents of Wingham, Ontario will take part in a pilot project that is measuring how much the collective use of rain barrels can reduce stress on sewer systems and help keep basements dry during intense [...]
Posted on 11 May 2009
If Chicken Little told you the sky was falling, you'd likely take no heed to the warning. However, if a group of accredited professors tell you that Canada's groundwater supplies are threatened, you probably [...]
Posted on 11 May 2009
Low Impact Development (LID), the concept of onsite management of stormwater through natural, decentralized controls, has been catching on fast across Canada and the United States over the last decade [...]