In October 2017, Canadian Water Network embarked on a national review of contaminants in municipal wastewater and Canada’s options to deal with them. A national expert panel was established to guide the process and experts were consulted across the country. The panel’s culminating report informs and empowers decision makers and stakeholders to choose the most [...]
Canadian Water Network and the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association partnered with Public Sector Digest to investigate what asset data is being collected by Canadian municipalities/utilities and how it is being used. The report highlights potential challenges in the reliability of asset data, which could impact decisions at the municipal level and points to opportunities [...]
This report was prepared by Canadian Water Network on behalf of the Canadian Municipal Water Consortium to articulate the elements involved in full cost recovery; provide a snapshot of typical financial practices of Canadian utilities; highlight the challenges to achieving financially sustainable water systems; and identify a menu of opportunities to advance financial sustainability.
Canadian Water Network convened an expert workshop to update Canada’s conceptual model of nutrient source and transport. The experts’ discussion, as well as the research cited, informed the insights that are presented in this white paper, which has been written to support those who make decisions about nutrient management actions.
This report summarizes the work completed by the research nodes of the Canadian Watershed Research Consortium and shares what has been learned about adaptive monitoring and the implementation of collaborative monitoring frameworks, as well as the potential benefits partners foresee in using these frameworks.
Public concern about the environmental health of the Northumberland Strait developed
around the time of construction of the Confederation Bridge, when significant declines in fishery yields of lobster, rock crab, scallops and herring were being reported. The Northumberland Strait Environmental Monitoring Partnership was created to improve cumulative effects assessment in the region and facilitate collaborative [...]
The Grand River is a large watershed in southern Ontario that drains into eastern Lake Erie. This project focused on understanding natural variability of the watershed and the relationships among biological, physical and chemical processes. Researchers investigated nutrient inputs, oxygen dynamics, community composition and function of macroinvertebrates, as well as fish population level and individual [...]
The Saint John Harbour is a major marine port with high shipping traffic. It is also an urban centre, with dredging, discharges of municipal wastewater and industrial effluents from oil refining, brewing, and pulp and paper production. All of these activities are overlaid on 8 metre semi-diurnal tides. This multi-year project established baseline data that [...]
The results of this research are being used to assess the effects of existing and future best management practices (BMPs) implemented within the Tobacco Creek watershed, to inform the design of monitoring programs for hydrology, aquatic chemistry, and biotic integrity, and to support management decisions aimed at remediating and protecting Lake Winnipeg and other prairie [...]
In 2010, the Slave River and Delta Partnership (SRDP) was formed to address the changes people were noticing in their environments and in harvested foods from the watershed. In 2011, community members worked with Paul Jones from the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) to collect fish samples to analyze fish health in the Slave [...]