Wednesday, April 16, 2025
2021 Water’s Next Finalists Announced
Every year, Water Canada’s Water’s Next awards program honours the incredible achievements and ideas of individuals and companies that successfully work to make a positive…
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Phosphorus in Aquatic Systems
Phosphorus (P), an important element in all biochemical reactions, is an essential nutrient for all life forms on the planet. At the base of the…
Reconceptualizing Water Quality Monitoring
Water quality data produced in the nearshore areas of the Great Lakes and interface areas with their tributaries have largely resulted from new monitoring initiatives…
Remembering Nick Reid
When Nick Reid passed away peacefully on March 17, 2021, his family lost a loving husband and father, Water Canada magazine lost a trusted advisor,…
Understanding How a Watershed Agency is Helping Manage Natural Resources
Imagine living in a growing, thriving community surrounded by clean streams, vigorous forests, parks, trails to hike, bike and snowshoe, and diverse plant and animal…
Calling on “Team Canada” to Prepare for Spring Flooding
Question: What do COVID-19 and spring flooding have in common? Answer: They both cause hardship and economic instability—if Canadians are not prepared. While we all…
Blue Economy: Defining the blue economy
Currently, predominant definitions of the term Blue Economy are synonymous with ocean resources. For example, the World Bank defines the Blue Economy as the “sustainable…
Wastewater Professionals Release Specification for Flushability
It’s not flushable just because the salesman says so! This has been our debate with the powerful wipes manufacturing industry for well over a decade…
Blue Economy: Ensuring prosperity in the Canadian water industry
There are a number of emerging challenges and opportunities in the Canadian water industry. Some communities are dealing with water shortages and boil water advisories.…
Access to Water Treatment—Students Reach Beyond the Classroom to Impact Positive Change
Water is essential to all forms of life and for many around the world safe water is not readily accessible or necessarily safe. The reasons…
Pumped to Clean Up—Pumps a Key Component of Woodward Project
The 45-kilometre long shoreline of Hamilton Harbour on Canada’s Lake Ontario has been at the heart of its surrounding communities for many centuries. Once a…
Award-Winning Water Steward—City of Vancouver’s Melina Scholefield
Melina Scholefield brings her passion for green infrastructure to her role as the manager of green infrastructure implementation at the City of Vancouver. “Melina…
Freshwater Health—New Data from WWF-Canada Unveils Issues of Concerns
Canada holds 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, which is facing high levels of stress from pollution, habitat loss and fragmentation, overuse, and increasingly,…
All Waters are Ocean Waters
In 1966, legendary canoeist Bill Mason taught a generation of Canadians what a watershed was through his iconic film adaptation of Holling C. Holling’s book…
Protecting the Port Lands
It’s been 15 years since the Port Lands Flood Protection project officially began, with an Environmental Assessment (EA) to study how best to restore the…
Funding Water Infrastructure
All levels of government in Canada have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way, shape, or form since March 2020. This is especially…
Is Your Water Management as Diverse as Your Communities?
Watershed management strives to improve the health of aquatic ecosystems as much as it does the economic, cultural, and biophysical health of our communities. Although…
Drowning in Plastic
In September, Oceana Canada released a damning report that emphasized the disproportionate amount of single-use plastics consumed versus that of other countries. The figures were…
Closing Shot: Just Saying It Doesn’t Make It True
The COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax, the U.S. election was stolen, all wipes are flushable, and the earth is flat. Just saying something untrue, even…
Taking Steps Towards Reconciliation and Watershed Governance
In the Cowichan and Koksilah watersheds on eastern Vancouver Island, a quiet transformation is unfolding. Outside of the limelight and driven by community champions, over…
Tracking Water Assets
To meet their mandates, water utilities must not only know where their assets are and how they relate to each other, but also how they…
Building the Business Case for Natural Infrastructure
Flooding is a critical issue facing Canadian municipalities that will only become more challenging as we continue to experience the effects of climate change. A…
Water Canada’s Top Stories for 2020
There was a lot of change, to say the least, in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, important work continued in the water industry.…
Top Five Drinking Water Stories of 2020
1. Government of Canada Announces New Investments for Clean Drinking Water in First Nations Communities While most Canadians have reliable access to clean drinking water,…