Sunday, April 20, 2025
BluMetric Opens Barrie, ON Office
International water and wastewater treatment company BluMetric has opened up shop in Barrie, Ontario, from where it will serve the City of Barrie and Simcoe…
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West Central Saskatchewan Gets Water System Upgrade
Saskatchewan has announced the opening of another water supply system. Just days after the Town of Cupar opened the door to its new water treatment…
Feds Announce Funding for Water Quality Project in Niverville, MB
The Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund, a federal organization supporting community action in improving water quality, has contributed more than $150,000 for a new environmental…
Duffin Creek Phase 3 Expansion Complete
Phase 3 of the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant expansion in Pickering, Ontario is now complete. The plant receives and treats 90 per cent…
Saskatchewan Town Opens New Water Treatment Plant
The Town of Cupar, Saskatchewan, has opened the doors of a new water treatment plant, with the help of funding efforts from all three levels…
CentrePort Development to Take Water from Assiniboine River
Manitoba’s CentrePort industrial development will draw its water from the Assiniboine River, said Manitoba, City of Winnipeg, and CentrePort officials on Monday. Originally, the City…
OCWA and Pica Announce Teaming Agreement
PICA Corporation and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) have announced a teaming agreement with both parties collaborating exclusively on specific projects and clients. Both…
H2O Innovation Partners with Rockwell Automation Program, Terminates Joint Venture in India
Quebec City-based H2O Innovation Inc. is now a partner in the Rockwell Automation OEM Program, part of the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork, a group of about 80 companies…
Sunshine Oilsands Selects GE Water Recycling Technology
Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. has selected GE’s produced water evaporation technology for its West Ells project in Fort McMurray. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project will…
UV Pure Partners with newterra
Toronto-based UV Pure Technologies has announced an engineered solutions partnership with newterra. The Brockville, Ontario-based company provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions to the…
Degrémont Opens New Facility in Ancaster
Anderson Water Systems, a subsidiary of Degrémont Technologies, celebrated the opening of its new Ancaster, Ontario facility this morning. Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Economic…
CaGBC Celebrates 1,000 LEED Certifications
Canada is now home to 1,000 LEED-certified projects contributing to water savings of over 3.3 billion litres–the equivalent of 1,336 Olympic sized swimming pools, says…
BioteQ Secures Selenium Removal Pilot
Vancouver-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, which specializes in industrial wastewater treatment, has secured a contract from Teck Resources Limited to conduct pilot scale testing of its…
Terratec Wins Brighton Lagoon Contract
Terratec Environmental Ltd., a division of American Water’s market-based subsidiary, American Water Enterprises, has been awarded a contract by the Municipality of Brighton, Ontario, for…
Canada Assumes Chairmanship of Arctic Council
Ministers from the eight Arctic states and representatives of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples met today in Kiruna, Sweden at the conclusion of Sweden’s two-year chairmanship…
DFO, IISD Sign Agreement on ELA
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) have signed a memorandum of understanding that may see IISD become the Experimental…
Bill S-8 to Have Second Reading in House
Bill S-8, the proposed Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act, is now in line for its second reading in the House of Commons. The…
Neepawa Opens New Water Treatment System
Neepawa, Manitoba, officially opened its upgraded water treatment plant last Thursday, with delegates from the town’s council, the town’s mayor, and Minister of Local Government…
Major $7.5M Yukon Project Underway
Work is well underway on a major $7.5-million water and sewage infrastructure project in Watson Lake, Yukon. The project is being jointly funded by the…
Quebec Publishes Draft Wastewater Regulation
Quebec’s draft regulation respecting municipal wastewater treatment works will be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on May 15. It is subject to a…
Nunavut’s New Water Regulations Come into Force
The federal government has bolstered water policy in Nunavut with the implementation of the Nunavut Waters Regulations under the Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act. The…
Canada and Saskatchewan Invest $65M in Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure
Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced $65 million over five years for the Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure Program…
Manitoba’s CentrePort in the Midst of Water Dispute
For several years, the City of Winnipeg, the Rural Municipality of Rosser, and the Province of Manitoba have been struggling over the question of how…
IJC Assesses Lakes Huron and Michigan’s Water Level Woes
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has recommended that the governments of Canada and the United States consider structural options for raising the water levels in…