Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Health-Care Facilities Are Cleaning Up Their Water Footprint
Hospitals are ground zero for healing the sick, curing disease, and saving lives. So it is unsettling to think of hospitals as less than exemplary…
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Opposes Waukesha Diversion from Lake Michigan
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, representing mayors across the Great Lakes basin, sent letters to the governors and premiers of the Great…
Government of Yukon Reaches Agreement To Operate Dawson Wastewater Treatment
The Government of Yukon has agreed that it will continue to own and operate the new Dawson wastewater treatment plant, despite the intentions to pass…
City of Saint John Announces $216 million P3 Plan to Overhaul Its Water System
The City of Saint John, New Brunswick has announced that it will proceed with a public-private-partnerships (P3) plan to overhaul its aging water system, totalling…
Ontario Government Announces Recipients of Community Environment Fund 2015
The Ontario government today announced six new recipients of the 2015 Community Environment Fund program that will fund watershed and restoration projects across the province. The…
Water Well Represented in Government of Canada’s Canada Research Chairs
On February 9th, the Government of Canada announced 305 newly appointed and renewed Canada Research Chairs from a range of fields and disciplines, including water research. The…
Small-Town Ontario Bands Together To Get Storm Ready
Extreme storm events are appearing in the media with growing regularity. The reality is that many buildings and their supporting infrastructure are not designed to…
Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) Awards Two Water Projects
The Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) held its annual awards event on January 28 to recognize outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations representing the best in the…
2015 LEED Numbers Show Steady Growth in Green Building
Across Canada, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system is becoming the most widely accepted standard for high efficiency and environmentally responsible design.…
Action Canada Makes Recommendations For Groundwater Management
One third of the residents in Ontario, everyone in PEI, and 80 per cent of rural residents in Canada depend on groundwater for their daily personal…
Flint’s Water Crisis
News outlets have recently picked up on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. However, residents in Flint have been living without a safe and reliable…
Early-Stage Clean-Tech Firms Get A Shot At $100M At GLOBE 2016
Clean-tech firms with early-stage technologies that could be used in the oil and gas industry have a chance to pitch their goods in a Dragon’s…
Hamilton Watershed Group Seeks $86 Thousand From City Council
The Stewards of the Cootes Watershed group are asking the City of Hamilton for $86 thousand to help carry out their shoreline cleanup and conservation…
Greater Toronto Area Municipalities Band Together To Defend Peel Region’s Fluoride Use
The Mayors of Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon are calling on Region of Peel Council to maintain the fluoride that is currently added to drinking water…
New Research On The Persistence Of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria In Wastewater Treatment Plants
Since the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Flemming and its clinical introduction in 1941, antibiotics have been used to successfully treat infectious diseases in millions…
IJC Reports Success in Preserving Great Lakes Water Supply
The International Joint Commission (IJC) released a report this week summarizing the progress made to fulfill the recommendations of a 2000 commissions study on the protection…
Ontario’s Craft Brewers Get Serious About Sustainable Water Management Solutions
One small but rapidly growing and thriving industry in Ontario is taking steps to reduce its impact on the environment and improve the bottom-line, by…
David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip Visit Site C Dam Protestors
Environmentalist David Suzuki and Grand Chief of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Stewart Phillip took to northeastern British Columbia to show support for a group…
Addressing Phosphorus in Lake Erie With Canadian Technologies
Harmful algal blooms have become increasingly frequent in Lake Erie. In 2011, the lake experienced its worst cyanobacteria bloom in decades, and in 2014, the…
Upgrades to Drinking Water System in Saint-Fortunat, Quebec Aim To End Boil Water Advisory
Combined funds from all three levels of government will deliver over $700,000 to the Municipality of Saint-Fortunat for upgrades to the drinking water treatment and…
Prime Minister Trudeau Announced $12 Million for Southern Ontario Water Consortium
A hundred or so excited students screamed as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau entered the room of the Science Teaching Complex at the University of Waterloo…
Quebec Researchers Secure Patent for Wastewater Technology For Micro-Pollutants
A U.S. patent was recently awarded jointly to Centre de recherche industrielle du Québec (CRIQ) and Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS) for a system…
B.C. Municipal Leaders Weigh In On Shawnigan Lake Controversy
Victoria city councillor Jeremy Loveday has submitted a motion calling on the British Columbia government revoke a permit to allow five million tons of contaminated…
Residents of White Rock Protest Chloramine in Drinking Water Treatment
Residents of White Rock, British Columbia are calling on the municipality to suspend its plans to use chloramine in drinking water treatment until further study…