Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Breaking Ground
After five years, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) will finally have a permanent home in 2009. The centre was founded in 2004 by the…
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New Guidelines for Green Advertising
With just about every company claiming to be greener than the next, consumers can be forgiven for being confused. Recently the federal Competition Bureau and…
The Banning of the Bottle
On August 19, London, Ont. became the first Canadian municipality to eliminate the purchase and sale of single-use bottled water at a number of city-owned…
High Court Water Buzz
One summer evening in 1928, a woman in Paisley, Scotland found a decomposed snail in her ginger beer. She sued the maker of the drink…
Expanding Their Eco-Imagination
As part of an expansion to its “ecomagination” strategy, the General Electric Co. (GE) announced on May 28 that it would reduce its global water…
Why Blue is the New Green
According to one of the world’s largest consumer products companies, Canadians are huge water wasters, second only to Americans, and most of us don’t even…
Remarkable Natural Filtration
After oxygen, water is our most important molecule — the source of all life on Earth and the key to all great civilizations. But clean…
Managing Municipal Risks
The Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 (SDWA) imposes significant obligations on municipalities for the operation of their drinking-water systems. With those obligations come risks, including…
Spending to Save
It is without a doubt one of the most pressing issues facing cities throughout North America today, and for most urban dwellers, be them residential…
State of the Industry: Into the Looking Glass
As unique as 2007 was for many in this industry, 2008 will follow with some of the same trends observed last year. Consider the last…
The U.S. Invasion
With Canada’s infrastructure crumbling and so many water and wastewater treatment plants in need of upgrading, there is little wonder that U.S. companies are eyeing…