Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Committed Climate Science in the Great Lakes
In its most recent newsletter, the Intergovernmental Joint Commission presented an updated assessment of the climate science being done in the Great Lakes basin. The…
Willingness to Pay for a Healthy Lake Erie
A group of American universities and government agencies has completed a socio-economic study of agricultural management plans for curtailing harmful algal blooms and the willingness…
Mapping Global Surface Water
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a study of global surface water and its long-term changes in the science journal Nature. Using…
Toronto Begins Resilience Initiative, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver Next
The City of Toronto in conjunction with 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) has launched a major effort to improve Toronto’s resilience to the shocks and stresses…
B.C. Municipality Votes to Borrow up to $6 Million for New Water Filtration Plant
The municipal council of Ladysmith, B.C. has voted to borrow up to $6 million over 25 years to fund a new water filtration plant. The…
Columbia Basin Trust Initiative Helps Reduce Water Use
The Columbia Basin Trust has announced the success of a water conservation project that saw communities reduce their water consumption between 2 and 39 per…
$40 million Pledged to Build Freedom Road
Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will get its Freedom Road after the provincial and federal governments, along with the City of Winnipeg, reached an agreement…
Funding for Strategy to Reduce Phosphorus Loss into the Thames River in Ontario
Efforts to reduce phosphorus loss into Ontario waterways and the Great Lakes will progress thanks to the funding announcement of $203,000 from Growing Forward 2,…
WWF-Canada Tells Canada to Regulate Arctic Wastewater
WWF-Canada has released a statement urging Transport Canada, which is currently revising safety and pollution regulations, to officially adopt the same or stronger levels of…
$45M for Upgrades to Moncton’s Wastewater Treatment Facility
The Governments of Canada and New Brunswick have announced more than $45 million in federal-provincial funding for improvements to the TransAqua Wastewater Treatment Facility. With…
PEI Sets New Funding Model for Watershed Groups
A new funding formula will improve how watershed organizations on Prince Edward Island receive provincial support. The province has instituted a plan to make the…
Social Media Campaign Features Canadian Science Communicators
Since September, Science Borealis, Canada’s digital science salon, has been puncturing the social media bubble with “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication.” The campaign…
U of T Project will Study Microbes in Mining Wastewater
The University of Toronto has reported on one of their research projects that examines the genome of microbes living in the wastewater generated by mining…
U.S. Scientists Working to Predict Lake Erie Hypoxic Water
Researchers are developing a warning system to for water utilities in Ohio that will notify them of hypoxic water near their intakes from Lake Erie reports…
Plans to Regulate Water Levels in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River Move Ahead
The Commissioners of the International Joint Commission (IJC) have signed and approved an order to regulate of water levels and flows in Lake Ontario and…
Land Transferred to First Nations after Harbour Remediation
On December 6th, the federal Government announced the transfer of three parcels of land totalling 1.707 hectares in Rock Bay, British Columbia, from Canada to a partnership of…
3 New Directors Appointed to Waterfront Toronto
The Government of Canada has appointed three new directors to the Waterfront Toronto Board of Directors. Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, announced that…
Tla’amin Assessing Water, Fish Ahead of Hydroelectric Development
The Tla’amin Nation in British Columbia has received funding from the B.C. First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund (FNCEBF) to conduct a feasibility study for…
Canadian Arctic Scientist Awarded Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research
Canadian Arctic scientist, Dr. John England, joins prestigious ranks, today accepting the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research. England is a well-known advocate…
De Beers Fails to Report Mercury Entering Watershed
Wildands League (WL), assisted by Ecojustice lawyers, has filed a private prosecution against De Beers Canada Inc. for failing to report levels of mercury and…
Funding for Community Projects in Northern Manitoba
The Northern Manitoba Food, Culture & Community (NMFCCC) organization has announced that it will be funding projects through 2017 that partner with people in Northern…
Toosey First Nation Completes Water Treatment System
On December 5th, Toosey First Nation (Tl’esqox First Nation) in British Columbia announced that it has completed a new water treatment system. The water system includes…
Study Identifies Weaknesses in Canada’s Cleantech Financing Chain
A new study released today by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and Cycle Capital Management, in collaboration with Écotech Québec, sheds light on some of…
What Training is Needed for the Next Generation of Water Operators?
At the east-end of Toronto on Lake Ontario lies the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant. This vast facility has been providing clean drinking water for…