Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Munk School of Global Affairs’ Program on Water Issues Disbanded
The Munk School of Global Affairs’ announced this month that the Program on Water Issues (POWI) has come to an end. Since 2001, through POWI,…
Ontario Government Announces $1.5 Million in Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund Projects
Ontario is investing $1.5 million this year in local efforts to help protect, restore, and enhance the Great Lakes. Now in its fourth year, the…
Quebec Clean-Tech Company Wins Global Water Award
Quebec-based H2O Innovation Inc. has won the Water Technology Company of the Year award at the 2016 Global Water Awards, which took place in Abu…
Toronto Region Conservation Authority Launches ‘A City of Rivers’ Interactive Map Tool
More than 60 years ago, Hurricane Hazel devastated Toronto and area. Lives were lost, properties destroyed, and history was written. Now, Toronto and Region Conservation…
Ontario Lieutenant Governor Meets With Teachers To Discuss Great Lakes Education
Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell met with 100 teachers at Brantford Collegiate Institute this week at a two-day event aimed at empowering teachers to incorporate…
IJC Releases Results of Great Lakes Public Opinions Survey
Eighty-five per cent of respondents believe protecting the Great Lakes is highly important, according to one of the largest surveys ever conducted on public perception…
Red Deer River Watershed Releases Blueprint Watershed Plan
Phase one of the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance’s watershed management planning process in Alberta has concluded this month with the release of the “Blueprint:…
Yukon Plans to Invest $1.5 Million to Expand Yukon’s Water Monitoring Network
The Government of Yukon has announced plans to invest more than $1.5 million to expand Yukon’s water monitoring network in between now and 2017, subject…
Halton Hills, Ont. Endorses The Blue Dot Movement
The Town of Halton Hills has endorsed the Blue Dot Movement—led by the David Suzuki Foundation—by signing a “Made-in Halton Hills” motion at a recent…
NASA Opens Access to Three Million Earth Images
Approximately three million photographs taken in space have now been made freely available to the public, contributing to scientists’ understanding of changing Earth systems. The technology…
IBM and Oceans Network Canada Launch Partnership To Improve Ocean Monitoring
Canada’s ability to monitor the coastal waters of British Columbia just got “smarter” now that a new program has been launched to install ocean observing…
P3, An Effective Model for Renewing Water Infrastructure
There is widespread consensus that Canada’s water systems are in urgent need of investment, replacement, and renewal. For many cities and communities, however, the upfront…
New Water Treatment Plant Unveiled on Vancouver Island
Citizens and city officials gathered today to celebrate the city of Nanaimo’s grand opening of a new water treatment plant on Vancouver Island. “We’re excited…
High Snowpack Levels Curb Metro Vancouver’s Summer Water Shortage Concerns
Metro Vancouver Regional District has reported that its water supplies are in good shape this year due to the the abundant snowpack. As of March…
Government of B.C. Will Address Groundwater Quality in Spallumcheen
The Government of British Columbia will take a series of immediate steps toward ensuring safe drinking water for approximately 200 residents near Spallumcheen, just north…
New Study Shows That Hydraulic Fracturing is Causing Earthquakes
A group of Canadian researchers have published new research that points to hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells, not wastewater disposal, as the cause…
Jarislowsky Foundation and Carleton Create $4M Chair in Water and Global Health
Carleton University and the Jarislowsky Foundation have announced a partnership to create a $4-million endowed research chair to address the critical challenges of water and…
Ontario Pork Farmers Report Their Water Use
Ontario Pork, the industry association that represents the 1,369 farmers in the province, released its inaugural Social Responsibility Report, measuring economic, environmental, social, and governance…
Fifty Organizations Make Recommendations To Strengthen The Fisheries Act
A new report calling on the government to make changes to the Fisheries Act is gaining support among a large number of Canadian scientists, First Nations groups,…
Stantec to Acquire Colorado-Based Engineering Firm MWH Global for $1.04 Billion
Stantec Inc. has announced a merger with Broomfield, Colorado-based MWH Global—the biggest deal in the engineering and infrastructure design consulting companyt’s 62-year history. The Edmonton-based…
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Presents Water Operator of the Year Awards
The Department of Environment and Conservation honoured two municipal water operators for their services with Water Operator of the Year Awards this week. Dale Walsh…
Federal Budget 2016 Promises Dedicated Funds For Water Infrastructure, Stewardship, and Science
Canada’s Budget 2016 was released this week, and the federal government’s plan proposes $11.9 billion toward infrastructure over the next five years—starting right away. The budget also…
Ban on Plastic-Bottled Water May Be In Store for Montreal
Banning plastic-bottled water may be the next item on Montreal’s environmental to-do list. According to a report by The Canadian Press, Mayor Denise Coderre has…
Ottawa Needs A Fresh Approach To Address Drinking Water Regulations For First Nations
In 2005, when half the people living on the Kashechewan First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario were evacuated following an E. coli outbreak in the…