Opponents worry that Winnipeg’s new 30-year wastewater contract lacks transparency.

Opponents worry that Winnipeg’s new 30-year wastewater contract lacks transparency. *Update* Winnipeg mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis held a press conference on Sunday demanding that Mayor [...]

Scotland creates a best practice for water pricing that some countries are looking to emulate.

With just about every good or service, including some essential services, people decide how much of it they want based on its cost. When gas prices go up, car drivers decide whether or not they want to [...]

Transboundary troubles in Canada’s largest river basin.

Named Deh Cho, or “big river,” by the Dene people, the Mackenzie River is one of the world’s few remaining large, free-flowing rivers, and one of remarkable continental and global importance [...]

Ballast water from big boats is a major threat to the Great Lakes. 
What are we doing about it?

It’s a cool, wet morning in late April 2008. Somewhere in the islands near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, Jeff Reutter, director of the Stone Lab, has just hauled in the net from a five-minute trawl. The good [...]

Geospatial solutions for management of water utilities infrastructure.

Like many other industries, the water industry is currently under pressure to do more with less. One way in which water utilities can improve their operational efficiency, and therefore cut costs [...]

Training for First Nations operators where and when it’s most-needed.

First Nations drinking water has had a history of infamy in Canada. In comparison to drinking water off-reserve, the quality of on-reserve water is largely unacceptable. Off-reserve, the responsibility [...]

In early 2010, Intel adopted a new water policy that reinforces the company’s commitment to conservation and respect for the human right to water. As a result of capital and conservation investments [...]

Quebec strategizes for source water protection.

Source water protection—an essential first barrier in a multi-barrier approach to safe drinking water—has been the focus of a number of recent provincial strategies, laws and regulations across [...]

Do Canadian water technologies have a chance on the global market? We asked five speakers from the upcoming Canadian Water Summit (Toronto, June 17) what they think.

The Ontario government has promised, through the proposed Water Opportunities Act, to position the province as a major force in the global water market. In your opinion, is Ontario [...]

Innovation meets reuse.

It may come as a surprise to some within the water industry, but the practice of water reuse and recycling has been around for about a century. Reclaimed water is former effluent water such as stormwater [...]