Saturday, April 19, 2025
$10M for Cleaner Drinking Water in Yukon
Canada and Yukon will be working together to upgrade and improve water treatment systems in the territory, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and Minister of Community…
PRECO Means $700M for Quebec’s Watermains
After a winter of devastating watermain breaks and pipeline bursts, Quebec municipalities must have jumped with joy to learn that the province is investing heavily…
Sask. Water Infrastructure Program Now Province-Wide
Saskatchewan’s Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure Program will now be available to the entire province. Originally offered in the southwest last year, the expanded program…
Protecting Lake Simcoe
Once known as Canada’s ice fishing capital, Lake Simcoe is Ontario’s largest lake after the Great Lakes, boasting a surface area of approximately 744 square…
EPCOR Takes on Banff
In more EPCOR news, the Town of Banff has agreed to make EPCOR Utilities Inc. as the new operator for its wastewater treatment plant. Under…
Gas Tax Funding Speeds Up and Doubles
John Baird, Canada’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister, announced today a shot in the arm for municipal infrastructure. Ongoing federal gas tax transfers to the provinces…
Gold Bar Now Owned and Operated by EPCOR
EPCOR Utilities Inc. (EPCOR) officially became the owner and operator of the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant today. Edmonton City Council authorized the transfer of…
Council Suggests Improvements for Watershed Planning
Groups and individuals who manage Alberta’s watersheds, or those affected by decisions around watershed management, need to have a voice in planning and decisions that…
Farmers Dispose of Obsolete Pesticides
While pesticide use is a reality for many farms, Manitoba farmers are taking steps to protect the land and water by avoiding the careless dumping…
Projects to Map Aquifers in B.C.’s Horn River Basin
Geoscience BC and the Horn River Basin Producers Group have launched several collaborative geoscience projects to identify and map subsurface aquifers in the Horn River…
Syncrude Changes Waterfowl Protection Plan
“The drowning of the waterfowl last April shouldn’t have happened and is unacceptable,” said Syncrude’s president and CEO Tom Katinas. “There is tremendous resolve in…
CF Surveillance to Help Spy Water Pollution
Ottawa has announced the locations of the two satellite reception ground stations for the Polar Epsilon project, marking the start of the second phase of…
Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnis
“Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it.” In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one…
Manitoba Assaults Phosphorus
New measures were announced last week by Manitoba’s Conservation Minister Stan Struthers as part of an aggressive plan to reduce phosphorus that promotes growth of…
Murky Waters Exposes Bottled Water Recalls
A new report released today by the Polaris Institute discusses the current state of federal bottled water regulations in Canada and calls it inadequate. The…
Flathead River Tops B.C.’s Endangered List
The Flathead River, which flows through southeastern British Columbia into Montana, tops B.C.’s most endangered rivers list for 2009, according to a report from the…
Flood Compensation for Sask. Residents
It’s flood season. Yesterday, Dominion City became the first Manitoba community to declare a state of emergency to deal with the spring thaw and rains…
U of W Implements Campus-Wide Bottled Water Ban
Bottled water bans have hit schools. The University of Winnipeg (U of W) announced today that it will become the first university in Canada to…
Canada Invests $4.5M in UN Water Program
On the eve of World Water Day, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice announced that Canada will invest $2.5 million over five years to support…
World Water Day – March 22
World Water is happening this Sunday, March 22. Here’s a sample of a few events happening to celebrate water and draw attention to water issues…
AMERICANA: Day One
Day One passed with much talk of the economy and how it’s affecting environmental businesses. Not surprisingly, most of the non-technical sessions had a money…
Canadians Too Confident in Supply of Fresh Water? Poll
Canada may be on the brink of a fresh water crisis and unless Canadians start taking notice, our economy will suffer. That’s the conclusion of…
Visit CWT at AMERICANA
AMERICANA, the International Environmental Technology Trade Show and Conference, is happening from March 17-19 in Montreal, Quebec. Visit Canadian Water Treatment at Booth #1030! Check…
Vaughan and Kleinburg Water Systems Get Perfect Scores
The City of Vaughan has achieved a perfect score – 100 per cent – for its water quality and distribution systems from the Ontario Ministry…