Friday, April 18, 2025
Shannon to Receive Federal Funding
The community stricken by water contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE ) — an odourless, tasteless solvent, proven to cause cancer — will soon receive funds from…
drinking water
Groundwater DVD Makes a Splash
An eight-minute DVD on groundwater is being distributed by Conservation Ontario across the province. The Groundwater, Ours to Protect video, produced by Quinte Conservation in…
Ont. Communities See Funds for Potable Water Projects
Twenty communities will benefit from grants under the Ontario Potable Water Program (OPWP), announced MP Guy Lauzon today. The total financial support is $3,739,153. The…
Feds Reinvest in Sustainable Infrastructure Research
Universities, municipal governments, and companies in Saskatchewan will be able to work together to develop innovative solutions to assess, maintain, develop and renew vital public…
Feds Take Action to Clean Up Drinking Water in First Nations Communities
Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians and Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, have announced…
Groundwater Chemistry Atlas Released
A new atlas is now available online to help people seeking information about the quality of groundwater in any given area. Environment Minister Roland Haché…
CUPE Wants NS to ‘Ditch the Bottle’
A broad-based coalition of organizations in Nova Scotia has come together to convince municipalities and school boards that the sale and provision of bottled water…
Wilderness Area Protects Amherst’s Water
The Town of Amherst’s drinking water supply is now better protected with the designation of watershed lands as a provincial wilderness area. Nine-hundred and seventy…
Water Favourite Beverage of Canadians: StatsCan
A new study about beverage consumption by children and adults reveals that at all ages, water is the beverage consumed by the highest percentage of…
Clean Water for Orangedale, N.S.
Sally Chisholm, the chair of the Orangedale Water Society said Wednesday that after years of waiting, the rural Inverness County community in Nova Scotia should…
Building a New Walkerton Clean Water Centre
Construction is underway on the new Walkerton Clean Water Centre. The new, energy efficient building will increase the centre’s capacity to conduct training, seminars, information…
Limited Access to Drinking Water on Canadian University Campuses: Report
The bottled water debate continues to be spurred as a national online survey, Corporate Initiatives on Campus – a 2008 Snapshot, developed by the Canadian…
$724M for Ontario’s Smaller Communities
Yesterday, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario welcomed the signing of the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund, which will flow more than $724…
New Regional Water Supply System: Penobsquis
Residents of Penobsquis will have access to safe drinking water through a new regional water supply system. Today, the governments of Canada and New Brunswick…
$8.7 Invested in N.S. Water
Nine Nova Scotia communities will benefit from safer drinking water and improved storm water systems due to a shared investment by three levels of government.…
Trojan Technologies Acquires R-Can Environmental
Trojan Technologies, a manufacturer of water treatment solutions, has acquired R-Can Environmental Inc. R-Can manufactures ultraviolet equipment in residential water disinfection applications. The combined entity…
Managing Municipal Risks
The Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 (SDWA) imposes significant obligations on municipalities for the operation of their drinking-water systems. With those obligations come risks, including…