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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 August 3, 2010
Last week RBC announced the last wave of its 2010 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Seven organizations from Canada, the United States and Trinidad & Tobago will share over $1.2 million.
RBC's funding will support a range of projects from wetland and shoreline restoration to water quality monitoring and sharing of sustainable water management practices in agricultural regions. The four Canadian grant recipients are:
Wildsight: A grant of $150,000 will enable Wildsight and the Lake Winnipeg Foundation to launch the Living Lakes Network Canada, a national network whose mission is to enhance the protection, restoration [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2010
Yesterday, the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. Presented by Bolivia and 33 other States, the resolution that would "entitle everyone to available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable water and sanitation" received 122 votes in favour with no votes against and 41 abstentions—including Canada.
Long-time advocates for the resolution include Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians. She told Canadian papers that the organization is "absolutely thrilled. This is a historic day and I think every now and then, the human species advances [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2010
The recent ratification of legislation favouring ultraviolet (UV) disinfection methods—in addition to other variables—bodes well for the market, says Frost & Sullivan.
The company's new analysis, titled Global Ultraviolet Water and Wastewater Disinfection Systems Market, finds that the market earned revenues of US$388.3 million in 2008, and estimates this to reach US$629.8 million in 2015.
Many major cities such as New York, Cincinnati, Paris and Washington D.C. have already installed UV disinfection systems in their water treatment facilities. Likewise, present European legislation such as the Bathing Water Directive and [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2010
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc., a company that treats industrial wastewater, will construct a third water treatment plant in China, in joint venture with Jiangxi Copper Company. The project will enable the mine site to maximize resource recovery and produce clean water. The design report for the plant, announced in March 2010, has been approved by the joint venture, and the project will proceed to construction in the third quarter of this year. The capital cost of the plant is estimated to be US$3 million, which includes the process plant, initial reagents required in the process, and contingency.
The plant [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2010
Recognizing the importance of finding efficient and economical ways to recover heavy oil from the oil sands regions, GE and Calgary-based FilterBoxx Water & Environmental Corp. have teamed up to develop water treatment solutions.
GE and FilterBoxx recently signed an agreement to develop integrated de-oiling and water treatment options for Alberta’s oil sands. Specifically, the two companies will work together on heavy oil produced water treatment projects using in-situ thermal methods such as steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).
Approximately 80 per cent of the oil sands in Alberta cannot be open-pit mined because [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2010
Quebec City-based H2O Innovation Inc., a water treatment solutions company, has been awarded new contracts totaling $4.5 million. These contracts will see the company provide custom-built water treatment systems for municipal and industrial end-users, in the United States and Canada and, to a lesser extent, in Egypt.
As part of the contracts announced today, H2O Innovation will design, build and deliver reverse osmosis and nanofiltration systems for the production of drinking water and for water reclamation for municipal customers located in Quebec and in the Southwestern United States. Other contracts will see the company provide [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2010
Insituform Technologies, Inc. has received a contract award for US$4 million to rehabilitate over 11,000 feet of drinking water pipelines in Victoria, British Columbia. Work on this project, which includes 12-inch and 20-inch diameter pipelines, is expected to be completed by early 2011.
In other news, Insituform has opened a new office in Montreal to meet increased demand for both sewer and water pipeline rehabilitation in the Eastern Canadian province. Backlog for the newly opened Quebec office exceeds US$3 million and includes nearly US$2 million for projects involving the InsituMain(TM) [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2010
More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great Lakes region of Ontario and Quebec, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. Down the Drain: Water Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin outlines how much water could be saved in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and gardens across the Great Lakes.
"Surrounded by all this water, we sometimes don't appreciate all that it provides us," said Mike Layton, deputy outreach director for Environmental Defence. "We need this water to survive, to power our homes, for [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2010
Increased concerns regarding water scarcity and water use restrictions are main drivers for growth in the North American industrial and municipal water reuse markets, says a new report from Frost & Sullivan. Current technological advancements make water reuse applications viable options for both municipal and industrial end users to circumvent these bottlenecks. In recent years, water reuse technologies have witnessed an increase in the United States and Canada.
Water reuse applications provide long-term return on investment related to operational effectiveness and reduced energy usage, in addition to cost savings. These [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2010
Twenty-two organizations, selected from 161 applicants from around the world, are sharing more than $2 million in grants for programs that help protect watersheds and improve access to clean drinking water.
Last week, RBC announced the first wave of its 2010 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients, with additional grants to be announced in the next few weeks. The funding will support a range of projects from wetland and shoreline restoration to water quality monitoring and sharing of sustainable water management practices [...]
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