Sunday, April 20, 2025
Full-Cost Rates for Water and the Chimera of “Affordability”
In recent years, Canadian municipalities have realized that the price we pay for water and wastewater services must rise. We’ve needed to move towards sustainable…
Regina Approves P3 Approach for Wastewater Upgrade
Regina’s City Council has approved a public-private partnership (P3) approach for its wastewater treatment plant upgrade. This means the City will have a single, long-term…
BC Takes First Step to Spill Preparedness
British Columbia’s government is taking the first step toward defining a marine-based spill response model to protect the province’s 27,000-kilometre coastline. The Ministry of Environment…
Interview: Dr. Howard Wheater on Water Use in Agriculture
While the agricultural sector is an important contributor to Canada’s prosperity, it’s also a major consumer of water resources and, when not properly managed, linked…
Maxxam Partners with Chemical Institute of Canada
Maxxam Analytics has announced the signing of a three-year, multi-faceted sponsorship agreement with the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC). The company’s sponsorship provides gold or…
On Top of the World
Water has always fascinated Marcus Sheppard. After taking a course in hydrology at Wilfrid Laurier University, he looked to Sir Sandford Fleming College’s Environmental Technology…
PPP Canada Publishes Water and Wastewater Study
Taking a cue from the high number of applications received under the water and wastewater category of the P3 Canada Fund and from the growing…
Hydromantis and OCWA to Deliver Training Simulation Tech
Hamilton, Ontario-based Hydromantis Environmental Software Solutions, Inc. and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) have entered into a partnership to enhance water and wastewater treatment…
Giveaway: Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada’s Freshwater
How will altered ecosystems impact future climates, urban centres, and agricultural landscapes? Robert Sandford’s latest work, Cold Matters, distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice,…
Building Healthy Soil
Urban development fundamentally changes the ways by which water flows through the local environment. Without the application of best management practices to control stormwater runoff…
Engineers Canada Launches Newcomers Website
Engineers Canada has launched a new website that provides international engineering graduates with a single, comprehensive online platform about how to become a licensed engineer…
Canada Water Act 2012 Annual Report Findings Released
The Canada Water Act’s annual report from April 2011 to March 2012 was released with intentions to highlight collaborations between federal, provincial, and territorial governments.…
Golder Acquires Vancouver’s NovaTec
Golder Associates has acquired Vancouver-based NovaTec Consultants, a specialized process engineering firm, focused on industrial and municipal advanced water and wastewater treatment plant design, operations,…
Lake Winnipeg Named World’s Most Threatened Lake
The Global Nature Fund has recognized Lake Winnipeg as the “most threatened lake of the year” of 2013. Lake Winnipeg, the tenth largest freshwater lake…
H2O Innovation Opens in Ontario
Quebec City-based H2O Innovation Inc. has opened a new office in Burlington, Ontario. The new office is a major positioning and growth platform for the company,…
EnGlobe to Decontaminate Kishon River in Israel
Quebec City-based EnGlobe has been awarded an environmental service contract by the state of Israel to rehabilitate the Kishon River in Haifa Bay, Israel. The…
IJC Issues Order for Osoyoos Lake Water Levels
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has issued an Order of Approval renewing the State of Washington’s authority to operate Zosel Dam and making minor modifications…
The Cold Gold Rush
With pickaxes and pans in hand, tens of thousands of people flooded the Yukon in 1896 in search of gold in its snowy creeks. Three…
Interview: Mark Terry, Canadian Explorer
Filmmaker and polar explorer Mark Terry has travelled to both ends of the earth, making it his business to share what he learns from teams…
Breaking the Ice
Managing sewage in Canada’s Arctic communities is very different than in the more populated southern regions of Canada. Arctic communities tend to have small populations…
Ontario Approves First Source Protection Plan
Ontario has approved the Lakehead Source Protection Plan to make the Thunder Bay area the first place in the province with a comprehensive source-to-tap drinking…
WEPGN Call for Proposals
The Water Economics, Policy and Governance Network (WEPGN) at Brock University has issued a call for proposals for research projects. WEPGN is a SSHRC-supported network…
Feds Announce Plan for $300M for Water and Wastewater on Reserves
The federal government has announced the plans for a $330.8-million investment over two years for First Nation water and wastewater systems on reserve. The funds…
Canada’s Top Water Projects 2013
For a long time, water and wastewater systems have been developed and redeveloped on a piecemeal basis, says Shane Freitag, a partner at Borden Ladner…