Friday, April 18, 2025
H2O Innovation Sales Backlog Hits $58.9M with Two New U.S. Projects
H2O Innovation Inc. has announced that it was awarded two new wastewater projects in the United States. These new contracts bring their project sales backlog…
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Vancouver Entrepreneur to Receive Mitacs Award for Slurry Treatment
A Vancouver entrepreneur has commercialized a new approach for treating dairy farm manure and sewage sludge and will be recognized with an award from Mitacs,…
BI Pure Water Receives NRC Grant for Refractory Wastewater
BI Pure Water, Inc. has been approved for a National Research Council Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) grant to pilot its low-cost remediation solution…
$36M to London, Ont., for Stormwater, Wastewater Infrastructure
London, Ontario, will make a major investment in stormwater and wastewater infrastructure to help basements stay dry and reduce the amount of effluent entering the…
Canada and Saskatchewan Invest $6.4M in Wastewater
The Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan have announced a $6.4-million expansion of the Balgonie wastewater system. “The investments in infrastructure we are making will benefit…
Ont.’s Largest Subsurface Wastewater Disposal System Not Feasible
In a report to the Town of Erin, Ontario, Gary Scott of Ainley Group, Consulting Engineers and Planners, has found that an subsurface wastewater disposal…
New Method Selectively Removes Micropollutants from Water
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to selectively remove micropollutants from water. Published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, the research details how…
$4.4M to Magdalen Islands for Wastewater Treatment and System Looping
The governments of Canada and Quebec have announced $4.4 million in joint funding for two water projects in the Magdalen Islands. Announced by the Honourable…
Great Lakes Commission on Binational Infrastructure Priorities
On March 2nd, the binational Great Lakes Commission (GLC) called for U.S. and Canadian leadership to rebuild and modernize aging water infrastructure in the Great…
FCM: Invest in Water Resource Management for Budget 2017
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has released its recommendations for the federal government’s 2017 budget, which includes an emphasis on continued investment in water…
$88-Million Upgrade to Kingston Wastewater Plant
Utilities Kingston has announced a four-year, $88-million expansion and upgrade of the Cataraqui Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant to increase plant capacity, improve the quality of treated wastewater…
Pickering-Ajax Citizens Push for Elimination of Algae on Waterfront
The citizens of Pickering and Ajax are bolstering efforts to have the Province of Ontario and the Regions of Durham and York eliminate algae-inducing output…
Gas Tax Fund and Building Canada Fund Contribute Millions to Innovative Wastewater Facility
Costs for the innovative Sechelt Water Resource Centre in Sechelt, British Columbia will be covered by the federal Gas Tax Fund and the Communities Component of the…
Curbing the Flow
Bordered by two countries, eight states, one province, and more than a hundred municipalities, the Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the planet’s…
Don’t Drink the Water
When Attawapiskat First Nation declared a state of emergency in October 2011, Charlie Angus (MP Timmins-James Bay) visited the community to find out why. “It…
Urgent Delivery
Contaminated drinking water is a major source of concern for small and rural communities (SRCs) including First Nations reserves. Many small communities have water contamination…
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…
Clearford To Supply Wastewater Systems in Columbia
Ottawa-based Clearford Industries Inc. has made agreements with two municipal governments representing towns near Cali, Colombia to design and supply wastewater collection and treatment systems.…
Report Looks at Water-Energy Link
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project has released a new research report that looks at the link between water and energy use. The report, entitled Ontario’s…
$9.9M for Regina Water Projects
The end of January saw a funding announcement of nearly $45.8 million from the federal, provincial and municipal governments for 15 new infrastructure projects across…
McCain Revitalizes Wastewater Treatment Facility
A McCain Foods (Canada) plant in Carberry, Manitoba has revitalized a former wastewater lagoon with a wastewater treatment centre and the naturalization of habitat around…
CANTEST Wins Manitoba Contract
CANTEST Ltd., an analytical and testing laboratory, has won a three-year contract with Manitoba Water Stewardship to provide microbiological testing of drinking water from all…
GLV Acquires Dewatering Technology
GLV Inc. has acquired the municipal and industrial wastewater sludge treatment technology developed by Elcotech Technologies, a young company based in Boucherville, Quebec. Conventional mechanical…
B.C. Wastewater Treatment Study Funded
B.C.’s Capital Regional District (CRD) will receive federal and provincial financial support to plan wastewater treatment for its core area municipalities. The Governments of Canada…