Welcome to Canadian Water Network’s Spring 2025 newsletter. I wish I could bring only good news, but the reality is that — like all Canadians — all of us in the water sector are navigating challenging times. As a result, CWN is doubling down on generating solutions and strategies to help everyone better prepare for the choppy waters ahead.

Canadian Water Network’s CEO Nicola Crawhall sat down for an in-depth interview with Dr. Deb Chachra, Blue Cities keynote and Canadian author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World. Dr. Chachra is a professor and materials scientist at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts.

Sandra Cooke, CWN's director of communities and climate, interviewed Lou Di Gironimo, who will moderate the Blue Cities session, New Finance and Investment Strategies in an Affordability-Challenged Landscape. Lou is general manager at Toronto Water — a role he's held for 20 years.

Canadian Water Network welcomes Ville de Gatineau to the Canadian Municipal Water Consortium! The consortium supports 26 municipal departments and utilities that service over 25 million people.

Canadian Water Network is pleased to announce that Nancy Goucher is joining the organization as municipal program manager on March 17, 2025.

Canadian Water Network's collaboration with the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, is instrumental in empowering public health practitioners through our wastewater-based surveillance program. This initiative supports peer learning and knowledge sharing for public health practitioners.

Canadian Water Network's climate program advances mitigation, adaptation and resiliency strategies to enable action on the long-term security of our water resources and water servicing for our communities. Join us at Blue Cities to hear updates on water security, adaptation, and mitigation strategies for the water sector.

Members of the Global Water Research Coalition are meeting on March 20-21 in South Africa and will attend the IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse from March 16-19. Canadian Water Network's CEO Nicola Crawhall will attend an exclusive global roundtable on water availability and contribute to an IWA panel on building water security.

The federal government is moving to add Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) to the official list of toxic substances.