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Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnis"Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it." In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one of the world's foremost underwater explorers, installed Sublimnos—the first underwater habitat under ice—in Lake Huron at a depth of ten metres. The "underwater classroom" [...] |
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Interview: Dr. Rob de LoëOver the past two years, hundreds of boil water advisories have been issued in Ontario alone. Why aren't we providing everyone in Canada with safe drinking water? Dr. Rob de Loë thinks it's an issue of capacity. Dr. de Loë will be speaking as part of Elmvale Foundation's World Water Day celebration [...] |
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Stock the ShelvesDespite the recession, all signs point to a high demand for POU/POE devices According to the United Nations, the current slump in the world's biggest economies will shrink global output by 0.4 per cent in 2009 — the worst in 30 years. The world is in a recession, those who doubt it are in the minority. Yet market data indicates that one market segment of the water industry [...] |
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Death to BacteriaCarbon nanotubes might effectively treat wastewater, but are they dangerous to our health? In our rush to use new technologies in the improvement of man-made materials or to clean up the environment, sometimes we forget to consider or study possible environmental and health implications. Recent studies and reports have shown this to be the case with certain carbon nanotechnologies and their [...] |
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Opportunity KnocksIt’s time to invest in the Canadian water technology ecosystem Water tariffs are on the rise throughout North America and around the world, as we all try to figure out how we're going to meet the unstoppable water needs of global population, ever larger cities and expanding industrial development. A recent report released by Lux Research projects that disruptive [...] |
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H2OutlawFrom conspiracy theory to communist plot to health and safety issues – how did fluoride get such a bad rep? In 1955, a political group called the Keep America Committee issued a flier decrying water fluoridation, naming its practice one of the "Unholy Three," placing it as one of the main pillars of a global communist plot. Since then, other conspiracy theorists have alleged that fluoridation is a plot to [...] |
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Breaking GroundWalkerton training centre to move into new $8M facility next year. After five years, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) will finally have a permanent home in 2009. The centre was founded in 2004 by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in response to recommendations from the Walkerton Inquiry, and has been operating in two small leased buildings since. The [...] |
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New Guidelines for Green AdvertisingAvoid “greenwashing” and make claims you can actually back up. With just about every company claiming to be greener than the next, consumers can be forgiven for being confused. Recently the federal Competition Bureau and the Canadian Standards Association teamed up to produce guidelines aimed at avoiding "greenwashing" — whereby advertisers, either intentionally [...] |
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The Banning of the BottleCan the bottled water industry survive London, Ont.’s decision to place a ban on the packaged beverage? On August 19, London, Ont. became the first Canadian municipality to eliminate the purchase and sale of single-use bottled water at a number of city-owned facilities. In the past year, several major U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago, have taken the plunge [...] |
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High Court Water BuzzSupreme Court rejects fly-in-water claim. One summer evening in 1928, a woman in Paisley, Scotland found a decomposed snail in her ginger beer. She sued the maker of the drink and took her case all the way to the House of Lords, the highest court in Britain. What followed was one of the most important decisions in legal history, because it established [...] |
