Friday, April 18, 2025
Mayors Call for New Bi-National Commitment
Mayors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative are calling on the American and Canadian federal governments to build on the U.S. Great…
International
Seven Canadian Companies Honoured by Artemis Top 50
Ontario’s global water leadership summit played host to the launch of The Artemis Project’s 2011 honoured companies for most innovative water technologies. Seven Canadian companies…
Blue Gold Canada Signs Mexico Agreement
Toronto-based Blue Gold Canada has signed an MOU with Hasar’s Grupo Ecologico that outlines plans to install a wastewater treatment plant at the Hasar’s landfill…
Study Takes Stock of Pollutants
Over 228 million kilograms of direct pollutant releases to surface waters were reported by industrial facilities in North America in 2006, while a minimum of…
Water-Energy Wins in San Francisco
Seattle-based Hydrovolts has taken the top prize of this year’s Imagine H2O competition, the theme of which was the water-energy nexus. The winner and runners…
Water Committee Calls for More Rigorous Objectives for Oil Sands
In a report released March 7, Alberta’s water monitoring data review committee recommended comprehensive monitoring, more rigorous scientific analysis, and new monitoring objectives in order…
Canadians Celebrate Bottled Water Free Day
Canada and several other countries marked the second Bottled Water Free Day on March 10. “Canadians are rejecting the privatization of public water resources and…
IJC Recommends Focus on Human Health Concerns for Great Lakes
The International Joint Commission provided 32 recommendations for action at the federal, state, provincial and local levels of government in its 15th biennial report, released…
Singapore and Ontario to Collaborate on Clean Water Tech R&D
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, and the Government of Ontario have officially agreed to enter into a strategic alliance to conduct advanced clean water research…
Quebec Woman Honoured for Water Work in Mali
Today, at the 2011 Canadian Edition of its Women of the Earth Awards, the Yves Rocher Foundation honoured three women for their commitment to preserving…
Water Disclosure Added to Canadian Water Summit Agenda
Executive Chris Hedemann from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Water Disclosure will be coming to Canada to share insights into how water measurement is changing…
ENPAR Partners with Chile’s InTechnology
Guelph, Ontario-based ENPAR Technologies Inc. has entered into an MOU with InTechnology Chile Ltda to develop markets in Chile and other Latin-American countries for ENPAR’s…
Trojan UV Wins Large Australian Contract
Trojan Technologies and exclusive distributor in Australia, Aquatec-Maxcon PTY Ltd., have been selected by the Eastern Tertiary Alliance to provide the ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system…
Pure Technologies to Purchase UAE Company
Calgary’s Pure Technologies has entered into an agreement to purchase the business of the Inspection Division of Specialized Technical Services Est., an Abu Dhabi-based company…
ITT to Develop Standalone Water Tech Company
ITT Corporation announced last week that it plans to separate its businesses into three distinct, publicly traded companies. Under the plan, ITT would execute tax-free…
Holiday News Roundup
Happy New Year! A brief news roundup following a two-week break: 1. Shortly after the Royal Society of Canada released its oil sands report and…
CUPE and Council of Canadians Fear CETA Will Privatize Systems: Report
Canada’s already challenged public water systems are under threat from a broad free trade agreement being negotiated by Canada and the European Union (EU), says…
Imagine H2O Finalists Announced
Water innovation is alive and well, and the finalists for Imagine H2O‘s second year are nothing less than impressive. This year’s theme is the water-energy…
BioteQ Wins China Canada Business Excellence Award
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a company that specializes in the treatment of industrial wastewater, has received the Business Excellence Award for Outstanding Innovation and Best…
R.O. UltraTec Changes Name to AXEON
R.O. UltraTec, provider of reverse osmosis solutions, today announced that its new company name, AXEON Water Technologies, will be launched January 3. “Over the last…
Research Chair Honoured
Rajeshwar Dayal Tyagi, Canada Research Chair in Bioconversion of Waste Water and Sewage Sludge into High-Value-Added Products, has won the International Water Association’s (IWA) 2010…
Opus Acquires Dayton & Knight
New Zealand-based Opus International Consultants is acquiring Canada-based engineering consultancy, Dayton & Knight Ltd, a company that specializes in sanitary and health engineering, hydraulics, hydrology,…
Canada Signs Environmental Cooperation Agreement with China
Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, and China’s Minister of Environmental Protection, Zhou Shengxian, signed a renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on environmental cooperation last week in…
Oilsands Panel Unveiled
In response to concerns about industrial pollution in the Athabasca River and connecting waterways, Canada’s environment minister, Jim Prentice, has appointed an independent advisory panel…