Alberta-made 100-foot sprinkler tower heralded as the latest wildfire fighting tool
Edmonton Journal Perhaps the world’s largest pop-up sprinkler, a new telescoping tower-of-shower is bringing its portable cloud to a wildfire soon. Designed to quickly drench a landscape from 100 feet […]
New dam protecting Canmore from floods
Water Canada Alberta’s government celebrates the completion of a new dam that will help protect Canmore against the flood hazards faced by the mountain community. Steep mountain creeks create a […]
Calgary wants to borrow $1B for water projects to meet demands of growing population
CBC City of Calgary administration outlined a number of major water projects on Tuesday as part of its proposed budget adjustments for 2025. Click here to read the story. […]
Lethbridge crews working to repair 3 water main breaks
CTV News Lethbridge crews are working to repair three separate water main breaks throughout the city. The process of fixing the breaks involves isolating the water main and excavating to […]
Damming the Rivers
Alberta Views Nearly four decades later, the arguments for and against more dams in the South Saskatchewan basin are much the same. People discuss the role of infrastructure in preventing […]
Funding for design plan to expand Lethbridge’s water treatment plant announced
CTV News A design plan is now underway to increase the capacity of Lethbridge’s Water Treatment Plant. We know on peak days our demands exceed that 90 per cent of […]
Construction to start on major Foothills-Okotoks water project
CBC The Foothills Okotoks Regional Water Project will see water pumped from the confluence of the Bow and Highwood rivers to treatment facilities in both the town and Foothills County. […]
MD of Bighorn weighs cost, benefit of automated groundwater monitoring system
Calgary Herald The program proposes a system that would automate real-time groundwater level data collection at set frequencies, such as hourly, and thus allow trend analysis, but it would not […]
Company fined $1 million for depositing toxic wastewater into the Peace River
CBC Enforcement officers determined that on April 14, 2021, the company had deposited or permitted the deposit of more than 30 million litres of effluent – wastewater that was toxic […]
Climate change putting Alberta lakes on dangerously thin ice: U of C researcher
Calgary Herald Dramatically-accelerating ice loss over the past 25 years means some areas of the Northern Hemisphere have seen a thaw arriving 45 days earlier per century, states the review […]
