Water and Wastewater
Below are articles from the latest Water and Wastewater Special Feature by the Journal of Commerce.
Feature Articles - Water and Wastewater
![Is Alberta drinking water infrastructure vulnerable to climate change?](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/PC_WaterQualityAlbertaMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Is Alberta drinking water infrastructure vulnerable to climate change?
Drinking Water Infrastructure Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, a study underta...
Resource
![Digging into Peel’s $350M east to west sewer diversion project](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/Tunnel-Boring-MachineMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Digging into Peel’s $350M east to west sewer diversion project
It’s an immense, complicated and expensive project that took four years to desig...
Infrastructure
![Additional $85M approved for PCL to continue North Shore treatment plant](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/PCL-wastewater-acconia-metro-vancouverMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Additional $85M approved for PCL to continue North Shore treatment plant
The Greater Vancouver Sewer and Drainage District (GVS&DD) board has approve...
Infrastructure , Resource
![ISL Engineering wins award of excellence for new Alberta pumping station](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/PC-Raw-pump-station-Ariel-photo1MainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
ISL Engineering wins award of excellence for new Alberta pumping station
ISL Engineering and Land Services (ISL) of Edmonton has won a 2022 Award of Exce...
Infrastructure , Resource
![Energy from sewage drives net-zero goal for Squamish First Nation](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/Senakw_Diagram_Aerial-ViewMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Energy from sewage drives net-zero goal for Squamish First Nation
Vancouver’s massive $1.4 billion Sen̓áḵw development, to be heated and cooled by...
Infrastructure , Resource
![Solar powering up water and wastewater treatment plants](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/workers-install-solar-panelsMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Solar powering up water and wastewater treatment plants
Western Canadian municipalities are turning to solar to power water and wastewat...
Resource
![New UBC water treatment removes ‘forever chemicals’ for good](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/MAIN-PC-UBC-WATERMainWEB-01-300x169.png)
New UBC water treatment removes ‘forever chemicals’ for good
Engineers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have developed a new water...
Resource
![Extracting value from waste a winning business model](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/energyrecoveryMainWEB-water-01-300x169.png)
Extracting value from waste a winning business model
Mountains of wet and sloppy sludge churned up from drilling for oil in Alberta a...
Resource
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