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 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 [...]
Posted on 04 March 2009
The new initiatives of the Ontario Green Energy and Green Economy Act 2009 allow the McGuinty government to appear pretty serious about instilling green initiatives into our waning economy. The ambitious [...]
Posted on 25 February 2009
The City of Edmonton's unique water pricing system and conservation results helped garner top accolades from our friends at Corporate Knights magazine. The city was listed as Canada's most sustainable [...]
Posted on 17 February 2009
The feds and the province of P.E.I. have announced eight new projects to improve and protect water resources and wetlands. Federal funding of $397,280 for these projects will be made under the Canada-Prince [...]
Posted on 08 December 2008
The work by local water conservation groups to better protect water resources in Manitoba is being boosted with more than $134,000 in additional provincial funding, Water Stewardship Minister Christine [...]
Posted on 31 October 2008
WWF-Canada and Coca-Cola Ltd. have announced a three-tiered partnership to conserve freshwater and fight climate change. One of the tenets is a four-year, $1-million commitment to WWF-Canada to fund freshwater [...]
Posted on 10 June 2008
According to a Canadian Press article, the Government of Canada is looking at regulations that would require manufacturers to sell low-flow plumbing fixtures as a way to conserve water and energy.Limits [...]