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Sustainable Stormwater Management

Stormwater management has become an increasingly challenging issue for urban communities. In many cases, rainwater can no longer follow its natural patterns, which increases the…

Awash with Potential

Jurisdictions around the world are increasingly recognizing that sound water management is the foundation for economic and community prosperity. From growing and preparing our food…

Myths and Legends

Myth #1: Water is a public good. Water is essential to life. Therefore, some argue, it should be considered public. Food is also essential to…

Managing the Ultimate Asset

“Thirsty cities will not grow,” says Sharon Nunes, VP of IBM’s Big Green Innovations, imparting wisdom she’s come across at the World Council for Sustainable…

Stimulating Biology

Groundwater is one of Canada’s most important resources—approximately 30 per cent of the population relies on it for domestic use, and Environment Canada estimates that…

In Bloom

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” says Oded Distel, director of Israel NEWTech (Novel Efficient Water Technologies). When it comes to Israel’s water supply, he’s…

The Public Good

It seems that the loudest and most contentious debate around drinking water is the whether and to what extent private, for profit, entities should be…

Seizing the Opportunity

There’s no denying the opportunity: China’s economic resurgence and subsequent infrastructure investments have led many Canadian cleantech companies to look for ways to take advantage…

History in the Making

For over 250 years, the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia has been associated with water. Located on a peninsula southwest of the provincial capital of…

Cold Snap

Just south of the Arctic Circle in the small Nunavut hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet—or in Inuktitut, Igluligaarjuk—a sewage truck dumps its potent—smelling load into a…

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…

Hidden Treasure

Making a map is easy. Making a good resource inventory map is difficult. That’s what four southwest Saskatchewan rural municipalities (RMs) found out when they…

Water by the Barrel

Low Impact Development (LID), the concept of onsite management of stormwater through natural, decentralized controls, has been catching on fast across Canada and the United…

Digging Up Dirt

While geothermal technology looks like a great alternative to oil, geothermal installations and their effect on groundwater have been a topic of environmental concern for…

Constructed Wetlands

Picture a wetland treatment system. Do you see the man-made equivalent of a natural marsh-open water with some cattails and maybe a few ducks? If…

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…

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…

Interview: Dr. Rob de Loë

Over the past two years, hundreds of boil water advisories have been issued in Ontario alone. Why aren’t we providing everyone in Canada with safe…

Stock the Shelves

According to the United Nations, the current slump in the world’s biggest economies will shrink global output by 0.4 per cent in 2009 — the worst…

Death to Bacteria

In our rush to use new technologies in the improvement of man-made materials or to clean up the environment, sometimes we forget to consider or…

Opportunity Knocks

Water tariffs are on the rise throughout North America and around the world, as we all try to figure out how we’re going to meet…

H2Outlaw

In 1955, a political group called the Keep America Committee issued a flier decrying water fluoridation, naming its practice one of the “Unholy Three,” placing…