While hazardous gases should be treated seriously, they are not the only safety hazard to consider in biogas facilities.

Unique and creative sensor design, coupled with advancements in precision components and microprocessors, have provided capacitance a stronger than ever place in the environmental monitoring space for applications such as spills and leaks.

Sensor data almost immediately profiled high organic loading and toxicity from upstream distillery discharges, as well as the true impact from rain dilution.

Modernizing Ontario’s water and wastewater systems will go a long way to ensure the over 1 million new homes being built across the province are effectively serviced.

The shipping industry, including cruise lines, is adopting various strategies to achieve net zero “by or around” 2050, including new fuels, air scrubbers and shore-side electricity systems. According to some estimates, the industry can lower CO2 and other pollution emissions up to 98% by shutting down all on-board power generation from diesel engines and connecting to shore power supplied by the local utility.

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. As the Congress rotates through cities and countries, each event has an extra emphasis on issues of specific interest to the region.

Ice jams in Golden, B.C. are highly dynamic and can cause water levels to rise by several metres in a few hours. Past events have threatened critical infrastructure in the town and caused winter flooding. In remote, and sometimes not so remote locations, an absence of river data requires getting to know the site in more creative ways. This creativity was required for a project in the Town of Golden, British Columbia, where the team at Matrix Solutions was consulted to design a river ice monitoring system.

Rivière-du-Loup’s invited bidders to propose innovative solutions, rather than sticking to conventional design guidelines, opening the door to a solution that not only met the city’s needs but also offered a cost-effective alternative to the initially proposed installation of a moving bed biofilm reactor. The project also demonstrated the potential of tertiary treatment as a means of increasing the capacity of aerated ponds.

With a pressure sewer system, developers can defer a significant amount of their equipment cost until the sale of a home. They simply must install the piping network upfront, while basins, pumps and controls can all be installed immediately prior to occupancy. This allows income from the sale of the home to provide the financing for the equipment. This notably reduces the upfront cost associated with development.

The community found success with a fluidized ion exchange pretreatment system. MIEX® Mini systems from IXOM Watercare utilize a small-particle resin that is fluidized and used as a pretreatment step to pull organics from untreated water before it reaches the plant. This pretreatment removes dissolved organic carbon, thereby reducing disinfection byproduct formation.

The modeled CAC barrier will treat 30 million litres of groundwater annually as it passes through the barrier, equating to approximately two billion litres of groundwater treated over the barrier’s 60-plus-year lifespan.

This year, the BCWWA's annual conference focused on “The Ripple Effect: When Action Becomes Change."

Poor chemical and material combinations can result in damage to a range of equipment, including mixers, meters, pumps, and more.

Ideally, any contaminant plume that emerges from a landfill should be detected and controlled within its buffer zone.

The keys to successful check valve performance are valve selection, size, pipeline installation, and cost of ownership.

Nine small and medium-sized Canadian companies will each receive up to $150,000 to develop sustainable and cost-effective solutions to help better reuse plastics or improve the end-of-life management of plastic film for consumer items. The...

While age, material and diameter are most often the culprits when it comes to water main breaks, a pair of Concordia University researchers has analyzed more than 62,000 breaks and found that the types...

Montreal is set to build its largest sponge park ever as local officials aim to increase the city’s square footage of green infrastructure to absorb heavier and more frequent rainfall. In fall 2023, Montreal announced...

New federal funding of $15 million will help to support a wastewater surveillance network and bolster Canada’s biomanufacturing sector to improve health sector supply chains, cross-border trade and mobility, and explore new technologies in...

The City of Toronto has paused its three stormwater charge public consultation sessions set for April, following the mayor’s instructions to align its potential implementation with Toronto’s broader climate resilience strategy.   Mayor Olivia Chow told...

Despite the escalation of costs associated with expanding the Raymond A. Barker Water Treatment Plant in the Town of Collingwood, Ontario, local officials have now finalized a partnership and water sharing agreement with the...

Global Water Futures Observatories (GWFO) officially launched in April as a new chapter of the freshwater observation network that now connects nine Canadian post-secondary institutions, including Carleton, McMaster, Saskatchewan (lead), Toronto, Trent, Waterloo, Western,...

Ontario’s University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) is offering an interdisciplinary graduate diploma in climate change that is the first of its kind in Canada.  UWaterloo officials said the climate change diploma will be open to every...

In a new partnership, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) has had a successful first run incorporating its “Operation of Conventional Treatment Processes” course into the environmental technician curriculum at Confederation College in Thunder...

A new $4.3-million federal grant will allow Dalhousie University to support  the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority (AFNWA) to successfully deliver its mandate as the first Indigenous-owned water authority in Canada.  The Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Grant...