Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Going Solo
Roman aqueducts and sewers provide a powerful emblem of the antiquity of urban water infrastructure—centralized approaches to water and wastewater service provision may seem similarly…
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Canada Signs Environmental Cooperation Agreement with China
Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, and China’s Minister of Environmental Protection, Zhou Shengxian, signed a renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) on environmental cooperation last week in…
Ontario Meets Standards: Report
Ontario’s chief drinking water inspector, John Stager, has released his fifth annual report, providing an overview of the state of the province’s drinking water including…
SDTC Calls for Funding Applications
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) today announced its 18th round of funding for Canadian clean technology demonstration projects. Canadian entrepreneurs and technology developers with new…
Liberals Release Report on Water and Oil Sands
Liberal members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development today released their report from the committee’s study of the impact…
Canada Abstains from UN Water Vote
Yesterday, the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. Presented by Bolivia and 33 other States, the…
$10.9M for Water in Rankin Inlet
The governments of Canada and Nunavut have made a joint investment of over $10.9 million to support two water and wastewater infrastructure initiatives in Rankin…
Ontario Food Processors Address Pressures to Cut Water Use
In the food and beverage processing industry, water represents as much as eight per cent of a company’s total cost of production, and the costs…
Open Ontario: Plans to Make a Splash
“The world needs Ontario. The world needs what we have to offer,” said Ontario’s Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley in Monday’s Speech from the Throne, which…
Feds Fund Conservation Portal
The federal government is providing close to $35,000 from the Rideau Canal Resource Conservation funding to the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW) to complete the…
GMF Funds Guelph Greywater Project
The City of Guelph, Ontario has received $72,524 in loan and grant contributions from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund (GMF). The funds…
$1.8M for Centre Wellington Water Projects
Ontario’s Township of Centre Wellington will receive funds for source water protection via the federal Infrastructure Stimulus Fund. Support of up to $1.8 million will…
City of Ottawa Releases Plan to Clean Up River
Hot on the heels of last week’s sewer overflows, the City of Ottawa has released a plan to clean up and protect the Ottawa River.…
$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…
EDC Report Highlights Water Treatment
Canadian companies are uniquely well-positioned to respond to the global infrastructure boom because of their experience in finding infrastructure solutions in some of the harshest…
Myths and Legends
Myth #1: Water is a public good. Water is essential to life. Therefore, some argue, it should be considered public. Food is also essential to…
Water IT Market to Grow
Water information technology (IT) is a US$530-million market today, with potential to address a US$16.3-billion market in 2020, according a new report from Lux Research.…
ATCO Wins Alberta Contract
Calgary-based ATCO Water announced today it has been selected by the towns of Three Hills and Trochu, Alberta to develop a long-term partnership for the…
CCME Adopts Canada-Wide Vision for Water
Federal, provincial and territorial ministers met in Kingston last week and endorsed a Canada-wide strategic vision for water, which outlines how Canadian Council of Ministers…
CK Celebrates Canadian Cleantech
Last week, Corporate Knights magazine released its third annual Cleantech 10™ and Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders lists (view the complete report here), which represent…
More Canadian Companies Look to China
Quebec-based BioSpec Global Solutions Inc., and partner ICBS Ltd. have announced that they’re filing Eurasian patents in anticipation of entry into China. “China is one…
$8M for N.S. Water Projects
The provincial and federal governments are contributing nearly $8 million for eight water and wastewater infrastructure projects across the province. Funding for the eight water…
Eaux Vives Receives $1.6M
Eaux Vives Water Inc. will receive $1,631,600 in repayable funding under the Community Economic Diversification Initiative – Vitality to increase productivity. This funding will enable…
Nackawic Water, Wastewater Study
The federal and provincial governments are joining the Town of Nackawic, New Brunswick in investing a total of $41,535 to study how to improve water…