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- February 6, 2012: Water and Our World - Climate Change: Can we change?
- February 7, 2012: Another Drop: Raul Ponce-Hernandez
- February 7, 2012: Municipal PPP Learning Symposium
- February 7, 2012: What's Water Worth? Paving the Way to Water-centric Leadership
- February 7-8, 2012: Issues & Trends in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
- February 8-10, 2012: FCM Sustainable Communities Conference and Trade Show
- February 9, 2012: Leveraging Technology To Optimize Utilities
- February 9, 2012: Rainwater Harvesting Systems -- Design, Installation and Management
- February 10, 2012: Investing in Tomorrow’s Infrastructure – How Smarter Choices Can Help Battle Climate Change
- February 14-16, 2012: Environment Business 2012
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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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Posted on August 30, 2011
European construction company STRABAG Inc. has been awarded a new tunnelling contract to build a 15-kilometre wastewater tunnel in The Regional Municipality of York, in the Greater Toronto Area, for $290 million.
The works comprise of the tunnel with 16 shafts and various bio-filters to clean the air and remove odours, as well as the upgrade of a nearby three-kilometre stretch of road. Tunnelling will be performed using four Caterpillar Tunnelling Canada Corporation tunnel boring machines with a diameter of 3.6 metres, provided by the client.
Recently, STRABAG completed boring a 10-kilometre tunnel beneath Niagara Falls. [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2011
Ottawa-based Clearford Industries Inc., developer of a wastewater collection system, has partnered with Engineers India Limited (EIL) for the utilization of the Clearford system in India. The parties have entered into a memorandum of intention to jointly pursue projects using Clearford technology. EIL and Clearford have identified an initial five priority projects for potential initial deployment.
"Clearford will take a turnkey contract to design the solution and supply specific elements including components of the digestion process, water treatment and methane conversion facilities," said Bruce Linton, CEO of Clearford [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2011
Mayors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative are calling on the American and Canadian federal governments to build on the U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and local investments by making a bi-national sustainable commitment to the region, supported by long-term funding.
"Protecting and restoring the world's largest freshwater resource and source of drinking water for 40 million people must be a priority for our two countries," said Mayor Brian McMullan of St. Catharines, Ontario and chair of the Cities Initiative. "The U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative should serve as a model at the bi-national [...]
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