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Feb 7, 2025 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
ESEMag: Water Alert Series Share your organization’s water alert stories with us at [email protected] David NessethHalifax Water says it’s working with municipal and provincial partners to clarify protocols for issuing alerts and notifications, following a recent boil water advisory that many people say took too long to circulate and gain attention.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth |Peter Davey
By David NessethTo dive even deeper into the psychological barriers at play with the reuse of wastewater, University of Saskatchewan researcher Dr. Kerry McPhedran is planning a series of focus group sessions to further understand public perceptions and attitudes in the Prairies surrounding the potential to drink treated wastewater on a larger scale. Read the full article in ES&E Magazine’s October 2024 issue: Δ
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth |Peter Davey
By David NessethSince Calgary’s Bearspaw South feeder main burst its concrete casting on June 5, many indelible images have emerged. Workers were seriously injured during welding;a local fire highlighted the importance of water conservation; residents filled recycling bins with rainwater during a heatwave; repair crews rescued residents from a capsized raft; and robots revealed more issues deeper in the pipe than officials could see themselves.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth |Peter Davey
By David NessethThe spring 2024 release of long-time wastewater manager John Seldon’s latest book, Murder in the Aeration, is the follow-up to his 2020 release of Murder in the Primary. The series introduces readers to the world of Walter Stillwell, a wastewater plant superintendent whose expertise is called upon to help an enterprising police officer solve a murder, investigate fraud, improve her understanding of wastewater treatment.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth |Peter Davey
By David NessethThe City of Moncton is investigating technologies to fortify its water treatment plant and drinking water system in the ongoing fight against cyanobacteria. The city is currently evaluating the performance, cost and functionality of either powder activated carbon, ozone, UV treatment, or a combination, to find the best match for its water system. Read the full article in ES&E Magazine’s August 2024 issue: Δ
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
By David Nesseth In a field often dominated by men, 3M Corporate Environmental Specialist, Catharine Urquhart, says that after more than 20 years in her career, she thinks less and less about being in the minority, and more and more about how to take environmental compliance to the next level. Based in London, Ontario, Urquhart, 46, grew up with an engineer father, married an engineer husband, and has three kids.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
By David Nesseth When Dr. Jinkai Xue, principal investigator at the University of Regina’s Cold-Region Water Resource Recovery Laboratory, and an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, learned that the nearby Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant was spending upwards of $1 million annually to transport and landfill water treatment residual stored in on-site lagoons, he set up a meeting with plant management to explore innovative reuse solutions that not only...
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
By David NessethCome spring 2024, the TransAqua biosolids composting team in Moncton, New Brunswick, will have a stronger sense of whether the latest retrofits to their GORE Cover system are working to more effectively reduce odours that have created tension in the city’s north end for several years. Read the full article in ES&E Magazine’s April 2024 issue: Δ
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
By David NessethOne Toronto project is showing the untapped resource power of the some 175 billion litres of wastewater flowing through North American sewers every day. By changing the temperature of that wastewater by just 1°C, and temporarily diverting it, cities could generate some 60 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy annually, replacing traditional cooling towers and natural gas boilers with building climate systems that harness the carbon-free thermal energy of wastewater.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
esemag.com | David Nesseth
By David NessethThe deaths of some 40 coho salmon in Brothers Creek near West Vancouver, British Columbia, in late 2023, returned Canada’s attention to the risks of a tire preservative, now identified as a toxic roadway runoff chemical, which the B.C. government and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have signaled moves to regulate. Read the full article in ES&E Magazine’s February 2024 issue: Δ
