As Canada advances toward net zero and intensified climate adaptation goals, there is growing recognition that achieving deep emissions reductions will require optimizing existing infrastructure alongside deploying new clean energy systems. Wastewater Energy Transfer (WET) systems are an emerging component of Canada’s clean energy and low carbon infrastructure landscape. By capturing thermal energy contained in [...]
Canadian Water Network, with support from Insurance Bureau of Canada, undertook a study in 2020 on how to best frame and structure a new Canadian Centre for Climate Information and Analytics (C3IA) so that it can realize its intended purpose of becoming Canada’s authoritative source of climate information and decision analysis. The objective of this [...]
PSD, Canadian Water Network, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Canadian Water and Wastewater Association have partnered on a project that highlights five Canadian utilities (EPCOR/Edmonton, Kenora, Moncton, Saskatoon and Union Water Supply System) that are collecting and utilizing data to support infrastructure vulnerability assessment and increase resilience to climate change. These case studies are [...]
Large-scale flood risk models used by Canada’s insurance sector currently use low-resolution topographic data as inputs, and also give limited consideration to flood mitigation infrastructure or defense measures that have been implemented by Canadian municipalities. In a comparative study undertaken by Canadian Water Network and the Insurance Bureau of Canada, incorporating higher resolution topographic data [...]
