Last June, Kevin Freedman challenged himself to live with only 25 litres of water per day for a month, while still maintaining a healthy, hygienic lifestyle. He garnered lots of press in his hometown of [...]
Posted on 09 March 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
Last June, Kevin Freedman challenged himself to live with only 25 litres of water per day for a month, while still maintaining a healthy, hygienic lifestyle. He garnered lots of press in his hometown of [...]
Posted on 02 March 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
Ontario is gearing up to be a leader in clean water, or so says its premier, Dalton McGuinty. At last week's Liberal party Heritage dinner, McGuinty revealed a few of the major points of the upcoming [...]
Posted on 23 February 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
It's one month until World Water Day, and all over the globe businesses and organizations are ramping up with plans to spread awareness on this year's theme: water quality. Yesterday, EcoWater [...]
Posted on 11 February 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
Today's biggest water news started with a morning announcement from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). In partnership with FCM, IBC is offering the Watershed Awards—a new annual awards program to [...]
Posted on 10 February 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
"Here's your ATM machine," said architect Avi Friedman, pointing to an image of the majestic Peace River in Alberta. During his keynote speech this afternoon at FCM's Sustainable Communities conference [...]
Posted on 22 January 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
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 [...]
Posted on 20 January 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
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 [...]
Posted on 19 January 2010 · Written by David Zetland
Humans are good at exploiting their situations, pushing up to the limits of constraints on their way to maximizing their consumption of benefits. Thus, we see how people may spend as much money as they [...]
Posted on 14 January 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
As if we needed further inspiration for our March/April issue on aging water infrastructure. Just now, the (unoccupied, luckily) building next door to our offices fell victim to a watermain break (see [...]
Posted on 12 January 2010 · Written by Kerry Freek
Water plays a big part in ReNew Canada's 2010 list of the nation's Top 100 infrastructure projects, which represents over $68 billion in investment. Taking the number one spot again this year [...]