Friday, April 18, 2025
Interview: Steven Renzetti
What’s our water worth? It’s a big question. Depending on whom you ask, the answer might not be able to be quantified in dollars. Even…
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Savings at the Pump
In a recent University of Toronto publication discussing the water-energy nexus, Bryan W. Karney writes: “…if you are thinking about big challenges, and big threats,…
Interview: Sarah Dickin
Sarah Dickin is a graduate student in the school of geography and earth sciences at McMaster University, and part of the Water Without Borders student…
Cultivating Growth
Situated in the agricultural heartland of Ontario, Rondeau Bay is an important ecosystem. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), it’s an important spawning…
Deconstructing “Deleterious”
Located near the mouth of Rivers Inlet, north of Port Hardy on the central coast of British Columbia, the floating Rivers Lodge is one of…
World Wide Water
In 2010, Suncor Energy’s Edmonton refinery drew 50 per cent of its water from the City’s Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant, significantly reducing the amount…
Good Vibrations
Crumbling asets. Rusting pipes. Leaking watermains. Musings about the state of our civil infrastructure usually come around to this type of talk. It may seem…
Water in Agriculture
In many parts of the world, people are worried about the increase in water scarcity. Greater scarcity can be traced to two trends. The first…
Technological Exploits
When the art gallery at the Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland put out a call for proposals for its annual…
Time to Backtrack
Growing up near Elliot Lake, Ontario, Lorraine Rekmans remembers picking berries near Elliot Lake. A band member of Serpent River First Nation, Rekman’s maternal grandparents…
Nothing But Hs and Os
From pharmaceuticals to microchips, more than a dozen industries use ultra-pure water in their manufacturing processes. How do these industries deal with bacteria, particles, and…
Light Shower Towers
Toronto’s newest stormwater system is breathtaking. Housed in the pavilion basement at Sherbourne Common, a new park in the city’s rapidly developing East Bayfront area,…
Interview: Robert Tremblay
Due to increasingly severe weather and precipitation, water damage accounts for $1.7 billion in insurance claims per year on a national scale and now surpasses…
How-To Strategies
Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate change…
European State of Mind
Looking at a map of Canada’s many lakes and rivers may give the impression of a secure water future, but it’s a false sense of…
Abandoned Utilities
Canadian cities may be booming, but according to Statistics Canada’s findings, smaller communities are experiencing a widespread drop in population. In Nova Scotia, the rural-urban…
Heating Up
Canadian lakes, like those in other northern regions, are warming up faster than lakes further south, according to satellite data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…
Web Sense
The concept of transparency in government isn’t a new thing, but theory is always easier than practice. Just think of how the term “public consultation”…
Interview: Dianne Cunningham
On June 14, the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management released a report on its Water Innovation Forum, held January 23-24, 2011, in collaboration…
Around the World
“People ask what Manitoba and Israel could possibly have in common. Well, the answer is water. And we’re learning through collaboration how we can do…
Urgent Delivery
Contaminated drinking water is a major source of concern for small and rural communities (SRCs) including First Nations reserves. Many small communities have water contamination…
Interview: Aleid Diepeveen
In advance of Ontario’s Global Water Leadership Summit last week, Water Canada spoke with Aleid Diepeveen, director of the innovation program in water technology for…
Aftershocks
The nuclear disasters caused by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan have heated up concerns over water safety and radiation. Authorities reported increases…
Innovation Thrives in Ontario
Building upon past successes with big companies such as Trojan Technologies and ZENON Environmental and recently passing the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, the…