CWWA News
We’re excited to announce that the preliminary agenda for the 16th Canadian National Conference on Drinking Water is now available from our website. The program is extremely full of interesting and ground-breaking research on all aspects of water treatment - from technologies, to management and regulations.
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Ms. Hayley Todesco, senior at Queen Elizabeth Junior Senior High School in Calgary, Alberta, won the 2014 Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize. She will be travelling to Sweden to present her project ‘Waste to Water: Biodegrading Naphthenic Acids with Novel Sand Filter Bioreactors’ at the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition in Stockholm.
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CWWA is happy to announce the 2014 Utility Excellence Awards. These Awards highlight the remarkable work our members are accomplishing in their communities. Water and wastewater utilities perform a vital service, protecting both human health and the environment, and these Awards offer peer recognition of these efforts.
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Member News
CWWA members continue to expand and thrive across Canada. Stantec is on the team selected to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the City of Regina's new sewage treatment plant. On May 29, the city announced that EPCOR Saskatchewan Water Partners, which includes Stantec, has been chosen as the preferred proponent for the project. The team's proposal came in lower than the budget that the city had projected both for construction and long-term operations. Graham Infrastructure is also on the team.
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Federal Initiatives
The Public Health Agency of Canada published new draft Potable Water on Board Trains, Vessels, Aircraft and Buses Regulations to better manage risks associated with potable water supplied to passengers travelling on federally regulated passenger conveyances. This includes trains, ferries, cruise ships, planes and other passenger vehicles that are authorized to carry at least 25 people. While requirements already exist, they are over 60 years old, and a government audit in 2005 actually recommended an overhaul.
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The federal government recently launched the National Conservation Plan (NCP). The plan is intended to provide a more coordinated approach to conservation efforts across the country. The plan will include additional investments over five years to secure ecologically-sensitive lands, support voluntary conservation and restoration actions, and strengthen marine and coastal conservation, including new initiatives designed to restore wetlands.
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Provincial News
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) announced, April 30, 2014, that a total of $600 million over the next three years has been set aside to fund high priority water diversion and storage projects along the Elbow and Highwood Rivers to reduce the impact of future floods in southern Alberta. Of the $600 million, $325 million is allocated to the Resilience and Mitigation Program (RAMP), which funds projects such as berms, dikes, and riverbank erosion control work. RAMP funding will be available to municipalities across the province.
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The Government of Yukon recently announced six new research projects dealing with adaptation and climate change. The new projects complement the Yukon government’s existing adaptation work including research undertaken by Highways and Public Works which is working in partnership with the federal Department of Transportation to evaluate the effects of climate change and permafrost degradation on transportation in Yukon.
Visit http://www.env.gov.yk.ca/air-water-waste/Climate-Change-Adaptation-Information.php to view the full article online.
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International News
The National Water Research Institute (NWRI), a United States nonprofit organization that sponsors projects and programs focused on ensuring safe, reliable sources of water now and for future generations, is pleased to announce that David Sedlak, Ph.D., civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, will be the twenty-first recipient of the NWRI Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for excellence in water research.
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CWWA Committee News and Profiles
CWWA’s Security & Emergency Management Committee encourages water security experts (members of CWWA) from across the country to join its active group of dedicated members. For a complete representation we would be pleased in having on our board members from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon and Northwest Territories. The Committee is focusing its activities on current and emerging issues pertaining to physical infrastructure protection and cyber security working closely with Public Safety Canada.
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CWWA’s Climate Change Committee invites members of the Association interested or involved with climate change issues to join and support its activities and projects. The Committee is currently working on two projects of national importance: establish a Resource Databank and develop a National Survey on water utility preparedness and adaption to climate change impacts. In addition, the Committee is organizing a national workshop under the wings of the 16th Canadian National Drinking Water Conference to be held on October 28, 2014 at the Hilton Lac Leamy, Gatineau, Qubec. We are specifically seeking new members representing the following provinces: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Saskatchewan, Yukon and Northwest Territories.
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Snippings and Clippings
AWWA This week the U.S. Congress approved the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act as part of broader water resources development legislation (H.R. 3080). This is a tremendous accomplishment for AWWA and all of you who supported the WIFIA concept over the years. We expect the bill to be signed by the President soon.
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AWWA has released the results of its Water Shortage Preparedness Survey and a report is now available for download. The final report reflects analysis of 485 water utilities’ responses to questions about their practices and policies for water shortage planning and implementation. Drought and periodic water shortages ranked high on the list of issues of importance to utilities in AWWA’s 2014 State of the Water Industry Report. The results of the drought survey are intended to serve as the foundation for discovery and further action by AWWA members.
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Water Canada The Toronto Star reported last week that, of 15,000 household water samples collected by the city over the past six years, 13 per cent contained an unsafe amount of lead.
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Water Canada A nearly completed facility in the District of Sechelt, British Columbia, will blur the line between a botanical garden and wastewater treatment plant.
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Water Canada With the 2013 Calgary and Toronto floods still fresh in our minds, and the bone-chilling cold of the polar vortex lingering well into spring, Canadians have been walloped over the head with the realities of extreme weather. But rather than adapt and protect themselves from the potentially disastrous effects of this new reality, Canadians are instead opting to do nothing.
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