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Selinger Unveils New Plan for Lake Winnipeg

June 3, 2011 - 9:13 am

The Government of Manitoba will take new action to protect the province’s water and save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced yesterday. “The stakes are too high and the time to take action is now,” said Selinger. “Lake Winnipeg is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world...

Categories: News, Western Canada

Sewage Secrecy

August 30, 2010 - 10:19 am

*Update* Winnipeg mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis held a press conference on Sunday demanding that Mayor Sam Katz release the details of the City of Winnipeg and Veolia Canada contract, approved by council in May and yet to be signed. On May 19 Winnipeg city councillors voted in favour of a...

Categories: Features

Winnipeg Water to Stay Public

May 6, 2010 - 12:16 pm

Winnipeg is no longer considering a private partner for its water and sewer facilities, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. Instead, the city is replacing its water and waste department with a new city-owned entity responsible for water and sewage treatment, garbage and recycling collection and generating...

Categories: News, Western Canada

Infrastructure v. Politics

April 20, 2010 - 8:15 am

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released a new report which examines the best practices on long-term management of civic infrastructure, such as sewer and water. Written by Calgary lawyer and water management expert Will Randall, the report, Toward Greater Transparency in Water and Sewer Services...

Categories: National, News, Western Canada

Winnipeg Treatment Plant Opens

March 18, 2010 - 11:45 am

This morning, Winnipeg's Mayor Sam Katz toasted the official opening of the City's new drinking water treatment plant—a facility that took 10 years to plan and design and four years to construct. Located at the Deacon Reservoir just east of Winnipeg, the drinking water treatment plant is the largest...

Categories: News, Western Canada

FlowSense Comes to Canada

February 22, 2010 - 1:11 pm

FlowSense, a U.S.-based manufacturing and production company, has opened an office in Canada. Currently, FlowSense serves both the industrial and military sectors by partnering with OEM and distribution channels as a reseller of industrial components include liquid level sensors, fluid flow switches...

Categories: National, News, Western Canada

Winnipeg Sees SEWPCC Commitments

November 27, 2009 - 1:09 pm

Today marked a three-level commitment of support for improvements to the existing South End Water Pollution Control Centre in Winnipeg. The project involves improvements to the existing South End Water Pollution Control Centre (SEWPCC) to increase the plant's capacity to deal with wastewater during...

Categories: News, Western Canada

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...

Categories: Blog

The Public Good

September 25, 2009 - 2:01 pm

It seems that the loudest and most contentious debate around drinking water is the whether and to what extent private, for profit, entities should be involved through public-private partnerships (P3s) or even outright privatization of water system assets and operation. The debate is about to get louder...

Categories: Features

Winnipeg Votes for New Water Utility

July 23, 2009 - 8:23 am

Winnipeg's city council has voted in favour of creating an arm's-length utility to manage its water and waste services. The motion to create a new utility was passed by a 10-6 margin. After weeks of controversy and protests against water privatization, Mayor Sam Katz has maintained that the decision...

Categories: News, Western Canada

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