Saturday, April 19, 2025
Winnipeg Votes for New Water Utility
Winnipeg’s city council has voted in favour of creating an arm’s-length utility to manage its water and waste services. The motion to create a new…
ENPAR Awarded Ammonia Treatment Contract
ENPAR has been awarded a $1.13-million contract by a Canadian gold mining company for the construction and installation of a full-scale commercial ammonia treatment plant…
Quebec’s Blue Gold
Seasonal storage of floodwaters from three unexploited rivers that flow into James Bay and the channelling of this water to the Ottawa River could provide…
Funding for NL Water, Sewer Upgrades
The Town of Lumsden, Newfoundland will see $414,000 worth of upgrades to its water treatment plant from the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund…
BPA Levels Safe: Health Canada
Health Canada testing has detected bisphenol A (BPA) in some 18.5-litre polycarbonate bottles of drinking water, but it says the levels are low and pose…
Nunavut Gets Flood Relief
The federal government will cost share eligible territorial expenditures incurred by Nunavut through the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements for flood damage caused by snowmelt and…
Dawson Signs with Corix
The City of Dawson and Yukon government announced yesterday that a contract has been signed with Vancouver-based Corix Water Systems for the design and construction…
Wastewater Funds for Montreal
Canada and Quebec are partnering to improve a wastewater treatment facility in Montreal with a federal-provincial investment of up to $127.5 million. The funds will…
Water Figures in Neighbourhood Funding
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are partnering in the EQuilibriumTM Communities Initiative to provide support and promote leading edge…
Water Entrepreneurs in the Running
Today Ernst & Young unveiled this year’s Prairie finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, which recognize the spirit and contribution…
Cottage Life
The wild streams and rivers of rural Canada look clear and crisp enough to drink directly from the source, but thirsty cottagers beware: the potential…
$1.1M for Lake Winnipeg
Funding of $1.1 million to help clean up the Lake Winnipeg watershed will help develop an integrated water resource management approach, which is critical to…
First Asset Acquires Criterion
First Asset Capital Corp. will acquire the mutual fund business of Criterion Investments from VenGrowth Asset Management. Criterion launched Canada’s first global water infrastructure fund…
CMHC Awards 17 Grants
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has announced 17 new grants totaling more than $84,000 under its Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) Initiative. Operating…
BioteQ Commences Raglan Operations
BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. has announced that it has commenced water treatment operations for the 2009 season at its Raglan plant, located in Nunavik (Northern…
MBR Market Will Reach $1.3B by 2015
The global membrane bioreactors (MBR) market will reach $1.3 billion by 2015, says a new report by Global Industry Analysts. The technology’s growth will be…
New Municipal Drinking Water Licenses Issued in Ontario
Members of the Ontario Municipal Water Association (OMWA) are among the first five municipalities to have successfully applied for the new Ontario municipal drinking water…
Case Study: AMI in Miramichi, New Brunswick
“One-third of Canadian households don’t have water meters because they haven’t been regulated to do it,” said Doug Kaupp, Lethbridge, Alberta’s water utility manager, during…
RCCAO Links Energy Costs and Water Maintenance: Report
Ontario consumers are paying $700 million per year for water that never reaches their taps. A new study (PDF) released today by the Residential and…
First PRECO Group Announced
A first group of 22 Quebec municipalities will receive $15,802,500 under the federal-provincial agreement pertaining to the water and wastewater pipeline renewal program, le Programme…
Laval to See Upgrades
Feds and the province of Quebec will upgrade three water treatment plants in Laval. The Governments of Canada and Quebec will contribute up to $46.82…
Trojan Wins Stockholm Industry Water Award
London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies, a developer and proponent of large-scale ultraviolet (UV) water disinfection systems used worldwide, has won the 2009 Stockholm Industry Water Award.…
More Experts Call for Great Lakes Amendments
Another group is campaigning for renegotiation of the “outdated” Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Great Lakes United, a cross-border group of 38 leading Great Lakes…
FCM Honours Well Aware
Winners of FCM’s 2009 Awards for Outstanding International Volunteer Contribution and the 2009 FCM-CH2M HILL Sustainable Community Awards were honoured this weekend at a recognition…