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- May 22-24, 2012: Living Lakes Canada and Red Zone III Community Gathering
- May 23-26, 2012: CanWell: Canadian Groundwater Symposium
- May 24, 2012: Advancing Water Conservation: Leading Edge Tools & Technologies
- May 29, 2012: Webinar: Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on Our Water Future
- June 1-4, 2012: Federation of Canadian Municipalities: 2012 Annual Conference and Expo
- June 4, 2012: Water and Lessons Learned: Have we quenched our thirst?
- June 5-8, 2012: Earth, Wind and Water – Elements of Life: 1st Joint CWRA / CGU National Conference
- June 5-7, 2012: IBM & WCIT 2012 World Tech Jam
- June 13–15, 2012: Membrane Filtration Technology: Fundamentals, Design and Applications
- June 14, 2012: Nutrients Removal in Ontario WWTPs: Future Challenges & Options
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Posted on May 8, 2012
A public-private partnership continues between Vancouver's Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. and Clean Water Services, a water resources management utility designed to protect the Tualatin Watershed. It recently announced the opening of what is said to be the world’s largest municipal nutrient recovery facility.
The Rock Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, uses Ostara’s Pearl Nutrient Recovery Process to capture phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewater and transform them into Crystal Green, a slow-release fertilizer.
According to a recent press release, the recovery of phosphorus [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2012
Three Canadian environmental solutions firms have merged to form newterra ltd. The new organization combines the engineering, manufacturing, and sales and support networks of MLE Equipment, Filter Innovations and Pacwill Environmental. newterra, which has offices and facilities in Canada, the United States, Germany and the UK, employs nearly 150 people worldwide.
newterra will offer turnkey treatment and remediation systems to industry and municipalities—from initial design through engineering, manufacturing and service. newterra has pioneered approaches for iron removal from water, sound abatement designs for remediation equipment [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2012
In honour of the second annual Canada Water Week, check out watercanada.net for new Water Canada feature stories every day. Look forward to a new interview with TVO's The Water Brothers as they launch their first season, an update on WaterSense in Canada with Glen Pleasance, not to mention a chat with CH2M-HILL's Diana Frost about her recent water mission with Engineers Without Borders. Stay tuned, and have a great week. [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2012
Clearer water pricing will play an important role in how customers better manage their water usage, says a new report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL).
Water Tight 2012 explores the future of the global water sector in the year ahead. The report examines how major global trends such as population growth, increasing economic development, and urbanization, coupled with the changes in climate patterns, underscore the importance of effective public policy and private sector water stewardship in managing this finite and shared resource.
“There is a compelling case for utilities either to increase water prices or create [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2012
Salsnes Filter AS of Namsos, Norway will join the group of businesses owned by London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies.
Salsnes Filter’s technology removes particles from municipal and industrial process water. Industries such as food, paper, cruise lines, and aquaculture use the fully-automated treatment technology to treat effluent, improve the quality of influent or enhance the utilization of raw materials. The company's technology is also an alternative to a primary settling stage for a traditional chemical/biological treatment facility or preventing membrane bioreactor fouling.
Founded in 1991, Salsnes Filter is represented [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2011
Trojan Technologies has acquired the business assets of OpenCEL of Glencoe, Illinois. OpenCEL is an environmental biotechnology company that offers a proprietary technology which significantly improves processing of wastewater biosolids. Utilized for pretreating wastewater sludge prior to anaerobic digestion, the technology employs high frequency electrical pulses to break open biomass cell membranes, releasing soluble material that is more readily digested and converted to energy, reducing the amount of biosolids that are produced and disposed. The OpenCEL business will operate as a division of US Peroxide, a Trojan Technologies business [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2011
Toronto-based Capstone Infrastructure Corporation has acquired a 70 per cent interest in Bristol Water, a regulated water utility in the United Kingdom, from Suez Environnement through its subsidiary, AGBAR (Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona), for approximately $215 million.
"Bristol Water is an established, core infrastructure business with regulated and predictable inflation-linked cash flow and a strong growth profile in a stable OECD country, making it an ideal complement to our existing portfolio," said Michael Bernstein, Capstone’s president and CEO. "This is a platform investment that builds on our international footprint [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2011
British Columbia has a new conservation act to consider.
The Flathead Watershed Area Conservation Act, introduced on Tuesday, is intended to preserve the environmental values in the Flathead watershed.
The Flathead, in the East Kootenays, neighbours the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. The Flathead River is one of North America's last wild rivers, and the area supports a variety of animals and a diverse collection of plants and fish.
The introduction of legislation meets the commitment made in the [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2011
Thirty organizations, delivering projects in five countries, will share more than $4 million for programs that help protect watersheds and improve access to clean drinking water via RBC Blue Water Project's leadership grants.
"Since we launched the RBC Blue Water Project in 2007, we have now provided funding to over 450 organizations around the world that care about protecting and preserving water," said Gordon M. Nixon, president and CEO, RBC. "I congratulate this newest group of grant recipients. Their work is critical to the protection of the world's valuable water resources, and we are proud to support them in their [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2011
An international panel of technology experts has recognized a British Columbia First Nations multimedia team for its development of WaterKeeper, an interactive 3D training tool designed to support operators of small community water systems to provide clean and safe drinking water for First Nations communities. The award was given as part of the International Serious Play awards, a program "distinguishing superior examples of corporate, military, healthcare and school/at home" learning tools at the 2011 Serious Games Conference held on August 23-25, 2011 in Redmond, Washington.
The team worked under the guidance of the [...]
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