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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 September 9, 2011
In the face of international scrutiny, Canadian natural gas producers have developed new guiding principles for hydraulic fracturing that guide water management and improved water and fluids reporting practices for shale gas development in Canada. The principles were created by members of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and apply to all CAPP natural gas producing members, large and small, operating in the country .
"Protecting Canada's water resources is fundamental to our social licence to operate and to grow," said CAPP president Dave Collyer. "Canadians have told us they want more information as to [...]
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Posted on September 9, 2011
Funds for Lake Simcoe continue to flow.
This morning in Barrie, Ontario, Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that the feds will continue its support of the Area of Concern, investing $2.9 million in the seventh and last round of the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund, part of the Action Plan for Clean Water.
As part of the investment, the Corporation of the Town of Aurora will receive $650,000 towards creating an innovative engineered wetland to control urban runoff. Located in the Town of Aurora, the engineered wetland facility will treat urban runoff from 58 hectares of intensely developed lands and will reduce an estimated 60 kilograms [...]
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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 29, 2011
The City of St. John’s will receive approximately $10 million through the 2011 Municipal Capital Works program for municipal infrastructure projects.
The City will conduct a number of street rehabilitation projects with the assistance of this funding. Sanitary and storm sewer reconstruction will occur on Hoyles Avenue and from Rennies River Bridge to Churchill Square (Phase 1) and from Churchill Square to Allandale Place (Phase 2). Phases three and four of the North East Land Authority trunk sewer project from London Road to MacDonald Drive area will be completed, along with sanitary sewer replacement at Dublin [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2011
The Okanagan Collaborative Conservation Program (OCCP) and the South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program (SOSCP) have relaunch of their web portal for land use and water management information.
The Okanagan Conservation Planning website (OKCP) is the “go-to point” for conservation information and resources in the Okanagan. The OKCP was launched at the OCCP's AGM in 2010. Over the past year, land use planning and water management data has been added to the site. This past spring, partners in the OCCP and the SOSCP significantly revised the OKCP to incorporate the latest web-based applications and functions for easy access [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2011
FedDev Ontario has announced a contribution of nearly $20 million to help fund the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) through the Ontario Technology Development Program. The University of Waterloo, along with several other universities, is partnering under the SOWC to establish a system to integrate the development, testing, and demonstration for new water technologies. With strategic partners located along the Grand River and adjacent watersheds, this initiative has the goal of assisting water technology companies in southern Ontario with testing their products at the watershed level.
IBM Canada Limited is also providing [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2011
New guidelines have been released to help British Columbia’s coastal communities update floodplain area maps and adapt to rising sea levels.
The report, Coastal Floodplain Mapping Guidelines and Specifications, recommends standards for topographic mapping and identifies engineering requirements for establishing building elevations in coastal areas. It also includes a sample floodplain map showing potential floodplain areas to the year 2100, along with an engineering design brief.
This information will help urban planners and local government officials incorporate rising sea levels into flood-hazard area land-development decisions [...]
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Posted on August 16, 2011
Ontario's Minister of Research and Innovation, Glen Murray, today announced the chair and board members of the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP).
Nicholas Parker, co-founder and chair of the Cleantech Group, will chair the board. Other members from the public and private sector include
Peter Gallant, VP of business development and regulatory affairs, Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies
Linda Gowman, CTO, Trojan Technologies
David Henderson, managing partner, XPV Capital Corporation
Peter Huck, professor in water treatment, University of Waterloo
Carol Maas, innovation and technology director, POLIS Water [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2011
Kananaskis Country’s Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area will soon see water and wastewater treatment plants and upgrades.
“This community has seen a lot of growth and change in the 30 years since the Evan-Thomas water and wastewater treatment facility was built,” said Minister of Alberta Infrastructure Ray Danyluk. “It’s time to move into the future, taking advantage of today’s innovations and technologies to ensure we can continue to meet the increasing demand for a safe and stable supply of water in the Kananaskis region.”
Built in the early 1980s and upgraded in the 90s, the Evan-Thomas water treatment [...]
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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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