16 06, 2025

CEO message for the Summer 2025 edition of News Splash

2025-06-16T11:12:20-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

Welcome to the Summer edition of News Splash. This edition is chock full of knowledge products that CWN has developed over the last quarter, including a new report, Confronting Cost Escalation — which identifies the drivers of cost escalation for water infrastructure projects, provides Canadian examples, and offers strategies that are being used across [...]

16 06, 2025

Thought leader: Keynote remarks by Kelly Lendsay at Blue Cities

2025-06-17T08:35:10-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

Kelly Lendsay, Chief Transformation Officer, LUMINARY and CEO, Indigenous Works, delivered the luncheon keynote on May 15 at Blue Cities 2025. It was so well-received that we wanted to share his remarks with our network. Here is an excerpt from Kelly’s speech: The relationship between corporate Canada and Indigenous peoples in the early 1990s [...]

16 06, 2025

Water Leader Spotlight – Alicia Fraser from Capital Regional District

2025-06-17T08:37:33-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

CWN’s Water Leader Spotlight celebrates the diverse backgrounds of outstanding municipal water leaders serving Canadian communities and shares their insights into the industry. Municipal Water Program Manager Nancy Goucher interviewed Alicia Fraser, the General Manager of Infrastructure and Water Services for the Capital Regional District (CRD). Read on to learn about her journey in the [...]

16 06, 2025

CWN presents lifetime achievement award to Carl Yates

2025-06-16T13:31:43-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

CWN's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Carl Yates by CEO Nicola Crawhall at Blue Cities 2025. Nicola’s remarks: We have now come to our third and final award of the day, which is our lifetime achievement award. This award recognizes a retiring member of the Canadian water sector who has demonstrated incredible leadership [...]

16 06, 2025

Tackling rising costs in water infrastructure: Insights from Consortium leaders

2025-06-16T13:33:52-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

On May 13, thirty-six members representing 23 municipalities from CWN’s Municipal Water Consortium gathered in Mississauga for in-person discussion. The meeting fostered a highly engaging and collaborative environment, bringing together municipal water utility leaders to exchange insights, strengthen connections, and address current and future challenges in municipal water management. The meeting also helped set [...]

16 06, 2025

Managing future risks and building resiliency through adaptive planning

2025-06-17T08:49:25-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

In November 2024, CWN launched a project, Managing future risks and building resiliency through adaptive planning. Here's a quick primer that explains adaptive planning (AP): In the parlance of enterprise risk management, organizations need to understand, to the degree possible, known unknowns and unknown unknowns to create effective risk mitigation and resiliency plans. Known [...]

16 06, 2025

Summer 2025 update from the Global Water Research Coalition

2025-06-17T08:28:16-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

CWN’s Nicola Crawhall and other Board members of the Global Water Research Coalition met during the week of March 17-22 in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting was hosted by Jennifer Molwanta, CEO of the Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa, and was held in parallel with the International Water Association’s global conference on [...]

16 06, 2025

Adaptive Planning resonates with Blue Cities audience 

2025-06-17T08:57:29-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

The Blue Cities session, Planning in the Face of Uncertainty, introduced the Canadian water sector to adaptive planning (AP), a globally emerging approach to decision-making to address future uncertainty and accompanying risks. The session was chaired by Gen Neilsen, Director, Water Facilities and Treatment Services at the City of Ottawa, and explored the rationale, challenges [...]

16 06, 2025

Water utilities creating pathways to net zero water: Insights from the Blue Cities 2025 panel discussion 

2025-06-16T07:52:00-04:00June 16th, 2025|News Splash|

At this year’s Blue Cities conference, a timely panel discussion explored how Canadian water utilities can lead the charge toward net zero water operations. Hosted by Canadian Water Network, the session brought together municipal leaders, private sector innovators and global experts to share practical strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the water [...]

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