Canadians regard fresh water as the country’s most important natural resource—even over oil and gas and forestry, according to a recent Nanos-Policy Options public survey. And it’s with good reason [...]
Posted on 07 February 2010 · Written by Ralph Pentland and Nancy Goucher
Canadians regard fresh water as the country’s most important natural resource—even over oil and gas and forestry, according to a recent Nanos-Policy Options public survey. And it’s with good reason [...]
Posted on 08 February 2010
Phase 2 of the West Kelowna Sewer Services project, worth close to $8.8 million, will receive $5.1 million in joint federal-provincial funding, under the Building Canada Fund - Communities Component Top-Up [...]
Posted on 04 February 2010
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. Based on recent consultations with residents across the City of [...]
Posted on 03 February 2010
Canada and Ontario are setting aside a joint investment of $32 million towards the construction of a new wastewater treatment facility in Kirkland Lake. “Ontario’s investment in the town of Kirkland [...]
Posted on 02 February 2010
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 Saskatchewan. Federal funding represents [...]
Posted on 25 January 2010
Two municipalities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Region, Saint Félix d'Otis and L'Anse Saint Jean, will share $532,273 under the federal-provincial gas tax agreement. The communities will receive a [...]
Posted on 22 January 2010
The RBC Blue Water Project has committed $1 million to support the efforts of ONE DROP and Oxfam to provide access to water and sanitation to the people of Haiti and rebuild small water and sanitation [...]
Posted on 15 January 2010
What flies above will soon give improved knowledge about what flows below. Starting January 16, residents and motorists may notice low-flying aircraft streaking across the sky on a mission to better [...]
While long-term rebuilding is most certainly an issue that Haitians will have to face in the months and years following last week’s earthquake, the Rotary Club of Stratford, Ontario, has offered [...]
It's like the world is trying to tell us that the timing for our next issue on water infrastructure couldn't be better. First the burst next door, now this. On the eve of 2010, IBM released a video [...]