Water for Everyone

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Imagine a world without water

No clean drinking water. No wild caught seafood. No hot showers or cold dips in the pool. It’s almost unthinkable…but not impossible. As Canada, along with the rest of the world, deals with population increase, climate change, and complex regulations, water stability is rapidly changing.

Number of Canadian households at high risk of flooding

20% 20%

Percentage of public infrastructure that will have reached its end of service life by 2027

50% 50%

The percentage of Canada’s population now living in urban areas

82% 82%

Water is for everyone

WSP believes that ‘water is for everyone’ and is committed to seeing this vision through with the development of new technologies and innovations that are revolutionizing water treatment and management. Explore water with WSP, to learn more about what is being done to ensure that water is for everyone.

Insights

The Future of Clean Drinking Water: A New Treatment Method

While the debate regarding whether clean drinking water is a basic human right or a commodity continues around the world, few can argue the increasing need for ways to improve existing water treatment methods.

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From Waste to Renewable Resource

What if we could develop innovative technology to minimize sludge, recover nutrients and reuse wastewater more effectively?

Re-Thinking the Treatment of Sewage

WSP is developing an approach which has shown a dramatic reduction in gas emissions and even the possibility of turning sewage treatment into an additional power generator for our communities.

Revolutionizing Water Management

How will the technological advances of the fourth Industrial revolution impact how we manage water?

Predicting the Unpredictable: Innovative Methods in Flood Risk Management

Flood events can cause significant damage, both economically and to the built and natural environments. It is critical to stay ahead of these risks by using climate models, real-time data and machine learning.

Sustainability by Design: The Future of Water and Wastewater Systems

As population growth, rapid urbanization, and climate change, place increasing pressure on our water resources, it’s important to consider innovative, sustainable solutions to optimize our water and wastewater systems.

Sustainable Solutions for Rural Drinking Water Treatment

Rural communities often face high levels of contaminants, and water treatment systems which are more limited in design than large urban ones.

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Can we incorporate climate change principles into wastewater infrastructure design?

Climate change will have implications on wastewater infrastructure design and performance, — especially when it comes to wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure.

Can we make urban water systems more sustainable?

In Canada, urban environments are home to the vast majority of us. But as population densities continue to intensify, so does the pressure on urban infrastructure.

From source to tap and sink to watershed: Managing risks with a one water approach

As drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems have evolved with the development of cities, they have become more complex and specialized, while also becoming siloed -- typically being managed independently from each other.

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Can we end water insecurity for Canada’s Indigenous communities?

As I wrapped up my Impact Tour in Bolivia, here are the learnings I brought home to Canada, as we work together to ensure #WaterForEveryone.

Project

Pugwash Water Supply

Full design and construction of a new water supply system for the Village of Pugwash.

British Columbia, Canada

Long Term Boil Water Advisory Lifted through an Innovative Approach

The Village of Middle River has lived under a boil water advisory (BWA) for close to 14 years, following a series of failed water treatment attempts. The challenges associated with providing safe drinking water to this small community proved too daunting for a conventional project approach. Through a research partnership with RES’EAU WaterNET, an innovative technology of biological ion exchange (BIEX) was born. The first full-scale BIEX water treatment plant was commissioned in August 2018, which consequently lifted the long-term boil water advisory in late 2018.

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Turcot Interchange – Dynamic and smart stormwater management

Construction of numerous water management structures, including surface retention ponds, line retention, flow controllers and two pump stations.

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Coquitlam Water Treatment Plant

The project involved the replacement of a gaseous chlorine system with a liquid bulk hypochlorite system at the Coquitlam Water Treatment Plant (WTP), one of two treatment plants in the Metro Vancouver Region. A critical step in the water treatment process, the chlorine disinfection process was continuously operated throughout this conversion.

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant

An Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR) strategy was developed for the Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant and was a first step towards the sustainability of this 68.2 MLD plant. The study searched for technical solutions to derive value from the plant’s waste and to minimize its inputs. The results not only brought focus to the Region, which lead to the IRR option to pursue further into the design and implementation phase, but also immediate improvements with the implementation of short-term solutions.

Saint-Lazare, Quebec

Sainte-Angelique Water Treatment Plant

Upgrades at the Sainte-Angelique drinking water treatment plant in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, aimed to double water production capacity to 19 MLD without enlarging the plant building and staying within budget.

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