Wednesday, April 16, 2025
PDS Marks Growth Spurt
Pathogen Detection Systems, Inc. (PDS), an Ontario startup company founded on university researchers’ determination to find a faster, more effective way to monitor municipal water…
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$12M for Oxford, Includes Water Infrastructure
Feds announced today that the County of Oxford, Ontario has been approved for more than $12 million in low-cost loans from CMHC’s Municipal Infrastructure Lending…
Bottled Water Back in the News
This week Ontario NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) submitted a new Private Members Bill—Bottled Water Spending Act, 2009—to restrict government spending on bottled water. If…
Five Projects for St. Lawrence River Funded
Officials announced today $290,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for five projects to clean up the St. Lawrence River (Cornwall) Area of…
Armtec Wins YDSS Contract
Armtec Infrastructure Income Fund has been awarded a $26.9 million contract to supply water management products to upgrade the Southeast Collector Sewer System, which is…
Xogen to Build Pilot Project in Orangeville
Xogen Technologies Inc. took a major step towards commercialization of its pioneering wastewater treatment and renewable energy technology with the announcement on September 10 from…
RVA Awarded Toronto Watermain Replacement Contract
The City of Toronto has retained R.V. Anderson Associates Limited (RVA) to provide program management, design, inspection, and contract administration services during construction for a…
BIOREM Gets $1.2M from Ontario
Through its Innovation Agenda, Ontario is supporting the development of new wastewater treatment technology. The province is investing almost $1.2 million through the Innovation Demonstration…
Comstock Awarded Humber Plant Upgrades
Comstock Canada, a subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc., has received a contract from the City of Toronto for a de-chlorination upgrade project at the Humber…
New Treatment System at Nipissing First Nation
Ontario’s Nipissing First Nation welcomes its new Garden Village Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities, built using $14 million in federal funding and $2.1 million of…
More Lake Simcoe Projects Announced
The third and fourth groups of projects under the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund have been announced. Initiatives funded by the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund are…
Baird Talks Sewage at AMO
The Association of Ontario Municipalities’ annual conference was a chance for some municipal leaders to ask questions about—what else—stimulus funding. But it was in the…
$3.5M for Chatham-Kent Under OPWP
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent will receive a grant of $3,545,871 under the Ontario Potable Water Program (OPWP). Nearly $17 million in financial support has been…
$93.3M for York, Durham Wastewater Improvements
The governments of Canada and Ontario have set aside a total of $93.3 million in funding to support the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant…
BIOREM Awarded Three Projects in China
Guelph-based BIOREM Inc., designer and manufacturer of air pollution control systems, last week announced three new municipal orders from its China office. The three orders,…
ENPAR Awarded Ammonia Treatment Contract
ENPAR has been awarded a $1.13-million contract by a Canadian gold mining company for the construction and installation of a full-scale commercial ammonia treatment plant…
New Municipal Drinking Water Licenses Issued in Ontario
Members of the Ontario Municipal Water Association (OMWA) are among the first five municipalities to have successfully applied for the new Ontario municipal drinking water…
RCCAO Links Energy Costs and Water Maintenance: Report
Ontario consumers are paying $700 million per year for water that never reaches their taps. A new study (PDF) released today by the Residential and…
Guelph Adopts WCESU Recommendations
Guelph, Ontario’s City Council voted to adopt the policy recommendations of Water Conservation and Efficiency Strategy Update (WCESU) at this week’s Council meeting. The recommendations…
Toronto Taps the Sun for Hot Water
Residents of Toronto’s Ward 30 (Toronto-Danforth) will be leading the way in using the sun for home water heating in a new program announced yesterday.…
A River Will Run Through It
As part of waterfront revitalization, Waterfront Toronto announced over the weekend its plans to naturalize the mouth of the Don River and to transform the…
Feds Invest in Water Science
The Centre for Inland Waters Hydraulics Laboratory and the Wastewater Technology Centre have received funding from the feds. More than $7.5 million over the next…
Is Green Economic Opportunity at Risk?
Ontario environment firms are concerned the province may miss a crucial opportunity in the coming years if business and government do not find new ways…
Ontario Releases Water Quality Report
This Earth Week, the Ministry of Environment rolled out its Water Quality in Ontario 2008 Report. The report details the state of water resources and…