A team of University of Connecticut researchers engineered a soil moisture sensor that responds to the global need to regulate water consumption in agriculture. The…
New research suggests that the growing intensity and scale of plastic pollution in the Great Lake poses serious risks to human health and will continue…
According to the authors of a new study, diversification of agricultural crops could help decrease water use, among other resource savings, but strategies to enhance…
Canada’s interests will be represented at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) with the election of Standards Council of Canada (SCC) CEO Chantal Guay to…
This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), stated that fisheries are facing an important crossroad and that the world needs…
Last week, WWF published Freshwater risks & opportunities: an overview and call to action for the financial sector, highlighting the opportunities for financial institutions to rapidly…
Yesterday, on World Toilet Day, Unifor and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) launched a Transport Workers’ Sanitation Charter, asserting that toilet rights are human…
New research suggests that climate change may cause the levels of greenhouse gases emitted by freshwater northern lakes to increase by between 1.5 and 2.7…
Scholarships are available once again to enable utility personnel to visit other utilities with innovations of interest through the Leaders Innovation Forum for Technology (LIFT)…
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) researchers explored optimal pathways for managing groundwater and hydropower trade-offs for different water availability conditions as solar…
A new study from Dartmouth College has found that consumption of water by plant life will increase in the future due to climate change, making…
According to a new study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 40 years of reduced mercury use, emissions, and loading…
At the end of September, the Global Commission on Adaptation launched a Year of Action to accelerate and scale climate adaptation solutions, with key tracks…
A new partnership aims to better connect science, policy, and business interests to accelerate both the restoration and protection of the Great Lakes. The International…
Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a new study shows winter emissions from the Arctic may now…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator, Andrew Wheeler, and Region 5 Administrator and Great Lakes National Program Manager, Cathy Stepp, unveiled an updated action…
A study by Ocean Wise estimates that 878 tonnes of plastic microfibres are released from household laundry in Canada and the United States through wastewater…
Acuva Technologies, a company based in British Columbia that provides advanced UV-LED water purification solutions, has partnered with Canature, a manufacturer of residential and commercial…
The U.S. Geological Survey has developed a method that will support its popular StreamStats application for the first time in a watershed shared by two…
Tecta-PDS announced that it has partnered with the International Triathlon Union (ITU) for delivering fast and reliable microbiological water quality tests in ITU sanctioned events.…
A team of researchers from the University of Queensland and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research has found that the study of wastewater sewage can…
Massive networks of drains, pipes, and tiles that enable food production on much of the world’s most productive cropland are due for expansion and replacement…
The International Water Association (IWA) has elected Tom Mollenkopf as president of the Association for the period October 2020 until August 2022. He will take…
The International Joint Commission (IJC) announced that it has appointed Suzie Miron, a city councillor in Montreal, as a Canadian local member to the International…