Thursday, July 10, 2025
Company of the Year: LuminUltra Technologies Ltd.
LuminUltra Technologies Ltd. was recognized as the Company of the Year at the 2021 Water’s Next Awards celebration. It also received additional recognition in the…
Pandemic
More microplastics are entering the ocean from disposable masks: Research
Zheng Wang and Chunjiang An from Concordia University are studying how environmental weathering deteriorates discarded disposable masks and pollutes our waterways. The enormous surge of…
Academic Leader: Dr. Banu Örmeci
Carleton University’s Dr. Banu Örmeci was recognized in the Academic Leader category of the 2021 Water’s Next Awards. COVID-19 has brought many activities to a…
Wastewater surveillance results in line with reported cases of COVID-19 in Collingwood
The results of a wastewater surveillance initiative support information about reported cases of COVID-19, which indicate sustained low levels of COVID-19 infection in Collingwood, Midland,…
Genomic testing can effectively track COVID-19 variants of concern: Research
Wastewater testing can accurately and rapidly identify levels of COVID-19 infections in the community, including the rise of variants of concern, suggests new research led…
Testing hospital wastewater can catch COVID-19 outbreaks faster
A study at three Calgary hospitals has proven that testing wastewater for COVID-19 can help identify cases and predict outbreaks in individual high-risk facilities. The…
Communicating science in a crisis
Communicating science during a crisis is no simple task. Over the past year, governments across the world have faced the shared challenge of communicating the…
Wastewater-based epidemiology
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, individual swab-testing has been adopted globally as the gold-standard for acquiring information regarding positive cases, rates of…
Bureau Veritas announces SARS-CoV-2 testing services in wastewater
Bureau Veritas announced that it is now offering testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater samples through a large laboratory network in Canada. This testing is…
New Initiative Announced in Newfoundland and Labrador to Detect COVID-19
A new initiative has been announced to help detect COVID-19 in wastewater in Newfoundland and Labrador. “As we continue through the pandemic, the wastewater surveillance…
Researchers Receive Investment to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Wastewater
Ontario Genomics, Genome Canada, and Illumina are investing in a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance initiative across Ontario to identify variants of concern. This project will enhance province-wide coordination…
USask and City of Saskatoon Named to Smart Cities List for Wastewater Projects
The University of Saskatchewan (USask) and the City of Saskatoon have been honoured for their collaborative wastewater monitoring project that advances environmental and human health—one…
Proactive Measures Needed for Addressing Water Infrastructure Assets
Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic put our critical infrastructure to the test. One major aspect of that was municipal water systems and its reliability.…
New Maps Provide Snapshot of Wastewater-based Epidemiology in Canada
The COVID-19 Wastewater Coalition has developed two maps that can help us understand where wastewater-based epidemiology is already underway and/or being applied in Canada. Over…
Saskatoon COVID-19 Wastewater Testing Results Now Available to Public
Saskatoon residents now have access to the results of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The results are available thanks to…
Government of the Northwest Territories Expands Wastewater Surveillance to Fort Liard
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) recently added the community of Fort Liard to the Northwest Territories’ (NWT) program that’s testing human wastewater for…
WEF to Help Expand Use of Wastewater-Based Disease Surveillance
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected the Water Environment Federation (WEF) to develop, manage, and provide training for a nationwide…
University of Guelph Researchers Testing Wastewater for COVID-19 Variants
A University of Guelph (U of G) research team monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 is now searching for variants. Dr. Lawrence Goodridge is working with a team…
Ontario Investing in New Initiative to Detect COVID-19 in Wastewater
The Ontario government is investing more than $12 million in a new initiative to detect COVID-19 in wastewater. The province is partnering with 13 academic…
USask Research Team Awarded Funding for Wastewater Surveillance Project
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has been awarded $137,392 from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to conduct a six-month COVID-19 wastewater…
New Tool Tracks Presence of COVID-19 in Metro Vancouver’s Wastewater
Metro Vancouver has launched an online tool that allows residents to track the viral load of COVID-19 detected in untreated wastewater at each of the region’s five…
Barrie, Ontario Joins Provincial COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Initiative
The City of Barrie has joined Ontario’s province-wide wastewater surveillance initiative for COVID-19 monitoring in municipal wastewater. Starting this week, the City will be providing…
Project to Detect COVID-19 Through Wastewater Expands Across Nova Scotia
Researchers have started collecting human wastewater samples at sites across Nova Scotia. Samples are being collected as part of a project that could help detect…
Top Five Wastewater Stories of 2020
1. Wastewater Test Could Provide Early Warning of COVID-19 A new test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the wastewater of communities infected with the virus is…