The City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a city that borders Lake Superior, is the recipient for the Most Innovative Conservation Method based on its development of water bars to promote more use of municipal [...]
Posted on 22 June 2010
The City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a city that borders Lake Superior, is the recipient for the Most Innovative Conservation Method based on its development of water bars to promote more use of municipal [...]
Posted on 10 May 2010
British Columbia is updating its building code to further protect and preserve water by requiring the installation of high-efficiency toilets and urinals in new buildings and renovations. Under the [...]
Posted on 22 April 2010
The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) in British Columbia has announced two water conservation rebate opportunities for residents, to help in achieving achieve a 27 per cent reduction in water consumption [...]
Posted on 14 April 2010
A coalition of environmental, industry, labour and community organizations as well as individual Ontarians launched a public campaign today to advocate that the provincial government includes a strong [...]
Posted on 14 April 2010
Abbotsford, B.C. is implementing a new remote read metering system with a contribution of $1.27 million from the Gas Tax Fund. Currently, the City of Abbotsford utilizes hand-held electronic touch probes [...]
Posted on 17 March 2010
Canadians' efforts to save water appear to be going down the drain despite their reported concern about its availability, according to the third annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study, commissioned by RBC [...]
Posted on 11 January 2010
Sixty-eight per cent of water utility managers believe it is critical that water utilities adopt smart meter technologies, says Testing the Waters, a new study from Oracle. Water utility managers indicate [...]
Posted on 10 November 2009
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 [...]
Posted on 24 March 2009
As products reach their logical end-of-life stage, stewardship, responsible disposal and recycling of product is the next step. Ontario and British Columbia policies are greening on many fronts-energy [...]
Posted on 05 March 2009
Let's talk California. On February 27, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed a state of emergency and ordered immediate action to manage the state's current water crisis: "This drought is having [...]