Things have been really busy around here, and writing has caught the brunt of it, truly falling off the side…
This weekend, I had a discussion with a colleague in the water and wastewater industry about technologies and ideas for…
Some of the best stormwater improvements can be made by retrofitting existing facilities to increase performance. These videos offer a…
Image via Wikipedia The City of Winnipeg, Manitoba has decided to dissolve it’s water and waste water departments and form…
The idea of collecting water from the roof of our home elicits some primeval response related to survival – we need water, we need security, it is natural to want to be able to grow things. The crazy suburban fiesta of the past 40 or 50 years has removed us from the realities of food and survival, with centralization and expansion of everything being the theme of the era.
One of the highlights of the BCWWA Conference I just returned from was a discussion about the ethics of water treatment and the frameworks that decisions such as this are made in. With a presentation from two Interior Health officials, the discussion and points raised gave us all plenty to consider on the ethics of our business – I did record this session and it is attached to this post.
And we thought that our communities had water supply problems. Authorities in Mexico City were forced to shut down a…
Last week we replaced the sand in two of the filters in the Rossland Water Treatment Plant. This is a…