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RemTech 2025
October 15-17, 2025
Fairmont Banff Springs
Call for Abstracts / Early Bird Registration – 55% Sold Out
ESAA is pleased to announce that early bird registration is open for the 24th edition of RemTech.
RemTech 2025 will feature technical talks, 2 receptions, 55 exhibits, networking opportunities and three great keynotes.
Keynotes:
Opening Keynote
Robert Bilott, Environmental Lawyer
Robert was instrumental in the lawsuit against Dupont over PFAS exposure in a community in West Virginia and resulted in a $1B settlement against Dupont and the basis of the movie – Dark Waters.
Thursday Lunch Keynote
Kate Moore – Author of Radium Girls
The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Friday Lunch Keynote
Julie Angus – Explorer, Scientist, Author
First person / Woman to row solo across the Atlantic.
Registration
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Call for Abstracts
Complete details for the 2025 call for abstracts is available at: https://esaa.org/remtech/call-for-abstracts/. Submission deadline is June 13th, 2025.
Full RemTech 2025 details can be found at: https://esaa.org/remtech/
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Alberta: Making every drop of water count
Alberta’s government is exploring opportunities to make more water available by updating the Water Act – and wants to hear from Albertans.
Demand for water is rising and Alberta is looking at ways to make more water available for farmers, ranchers, businesses and growing communities. The Water Act has not been updated in 25 years and with more families, agri-businesses, food processing plants and many others coming to Alberta, it is important that the system makes every drop count.
While most of the Water Act is working well, government recently heard from over a thousand Albertans who suggested improvements that could potentially help make the system stronger. Alberta’s government is now seeking public feedback on some of the targeted changes put forward by Albertans to maximize the water supply and make more water available to those who need it.
“We need to ensure we have the water we need for people, our environment and our major industries for today, tomorrow and for generations to come. Albertans have given us clear feedback on the Water Act, that it can and should be reviewed, and suggested specific updates for further discussion. We know there are many different views and perspectives, and we’re grateful for the participation and engagement to help us get this right.”
Critical areas are not up for discussion
The foundation of Alberta’s water management system is already working successfully. For example, Alberta’s priority system will continue to be based on principles of first-in-time, first-in-right – a system that has worked well for more than 100 years. There will be no changes considered that reduce anyone’s current water allocations, nor add any new royalties, bulk or volumetric pricing for water.
Alberta’s Water for Life strategy will keep guiding the province’s water system, ensuring healthy, secure and sustainable water supply for communities, economy and aquatic ecosystems. Alberta will also continue to support water allocation transfers in basins with approved water management plans and will continue to require a special act of the legislature for any high-risk inter-basin transfers.
Targeted improvements proposed by Albertans
Having heard from Albertans directly, government is seeking feedback on some of the most commonly raised, or practical, changes that were proposed. The updates could:
- Streamline regulatory decisions on licence amendments and transfers.
- Enhance water use information to support licence and transfer decisions.
- Enable lower risk inter-basin transfers where it is safe and appropriate to do so.
- Enable management of alternative water sources, such as rainwater, stormwater and wastewater reuse.
Albertans can provide feedback on the specific proposals until June 30.
There will also be targeted in-person sessions across the province with Indigenous communities and water using sectors in May. No decisions have been made, and government will review all the feedback before determining what changes, if any, move forward.
This engagement builds off the first phase undertaken in fall 2024 and winter 2025, but there is more work to do. Engagement on other ideas for regulatory, policy and program changes put forward by Albertans to improve water availability may also take place in the future as government works to strengthen the water management system.
Quick facts
- Alberta’s government engaged with Albertans to hear ideas about how to strengthen and modernize the water system.
- Phase one occurred October 2024 through January 2025 with more than 1,400 people participating and sharing ideas.
- Alberta continues to improve water management across the province, including:
- $5 million over three years for the Alberta Water Storage Assessment Program.
- $12 million over two years for Bow River Reservoir (with Transportation and Economic Corridors).
- $25 million investment this year through the Drought and Flood Protection Program.
- $8.7 million for wetlands through the Wetlands Replacement Program
- $3.5 million through the Watershed Resiliency and Restoration Program.
Alberta: Turning forestry waste into industrial fuel
Alberta’s government is investing $3 million from the TIER fund into a new hydrogen project that will help industry create jobs, attract investment and reduce emissions.
Countries around the world are looking for alternative fuel sources for industries like transportation, heavy manufacturing and power generation. As the largest energy producer in Canada, Alberta has the resources, business-friendly environment and expertise needed to become a world leader in developing hydrogen – a clean energy carrier that produces no emissions.
Alberta’s government is investing $3 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta to help Calgary-based Hydrogen Naturally turn forestry waste like woodchips, sawdust, plants and other organic material into hydrogen. This new technology will capture the carbon that would normally be released into the air during this process and store it underground.
“Hydrogen offers major potential for Alberta to leverage our vast natural resources, skilled workforce and existing energy infrastructure. Alberta is the largest hydrogen producer in Canada, and we’re just getting started. Investing in this promising, emissions-free, economically friendly fuel source is diversifying Alberta’s economy, creating jobs and positioning Alberta as a world leader.”
“We have the energy and the innovation to help power the world in the most environmentally responsible way. That’s why we are investing in technology and innovation to help create jobs, fuel our economy and keep attracting investments into our province.”
Hydrogen Naturally will use provincial funding for a feasibility study that will provide the regulatory, engineering and environmental information needed to build its first hydrogen production unit in Alberta.
“This funding accelerates the scale-up of breakthrough technologies, paving the way for a low-carbon future in Alberta. Companies like Hydrogen Naturally showcase how innovation and strategic investment can deliver tangible emissions reductions while fueling economic growth.”
“The Government of Alberta, through Emissions Reduction Alberta, will play a pivotal role in advancing our negative-emission hydrogen facility, which uses innovative gasification technology to utilize forest harvest residuals and firekill. Together, Hydrogen Naturally and Alberta can leverage our extensive carbon capture and sequestration capabilities to become global leaders in low-emission energy and sustainable forest management.”
Alberta is becoming the destination of choice for investors and innovators in the hydrogen sector, with a growing number of promising opportunities presented by hydrogen production and technologies across the province.
Quick facts
- Hydrogen Naturally was incorporated in Alberta in 2022 and is headquartered in Calgary.
- The company has plans for hydrogen production hubs across Canada and the United States.
- The worldwide hydrogen market is estimated to be worth more than $2.5 trillion per year by 2050.
- Alberta’s pipeline infrastructure, carbon capture technology, expertise in energy exports, and proximity to key markets give the province an advantage in hydrogen production and use.
- Compared to other emissions-free alternatives, hydrogen is ideal for moving heavy freight in Alberta’s cold climate and shows promise for its ability to store and transport renewable energy.
- To date, Alberta’s government has invested $43 million into 13 hydrogen technologies through Emissions Reduction Alberta, with a collective total value of more than $250 million.
- This funding is through the industry-funded Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) program.
Restoring oil wells back to nature with new ecological methods
Source: Environment Journal
In what could represent a milestone in ecological restoration, researchers have implemented a method capable of restoring peatlands at tens of thousands of oil and gas exploration sites in Western Canada.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo led the project that involves lowering the surface of these decommissioned sites, known as well pads, and transplanting native moss onto them to effectively recreate peatlands. This is the first time researchers have applied the method to scale on an entire well pad. The study found that the technique results in sufficient water for the growth of peatland moss across large portions of the study site.
Historically, restoration efforts involved planting trees or grasses to establish upland forests or grasslands. This new method returns a well pad to its condition before drilling occurred and supports the ongoing development of peatland restoration techniques. The discovery can help the oil and gas industry and its regulators better mitigate the long-term impact of resource extraction on Canadian peatland ecosystems.
The researchers plan to continue monitoring ecosystem development on the tested well pads to confirm that the transplanted mosses will be self-sustaining over the coming decades. Partners at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Centre for Boreal Research are now applying some of the study’s recommendations at sites across northern Alberta.
“Preserving peatlands is critical because of the role they play storing and supplying water in the landscape,” said Dr. Richard Petrone, a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at Waterloo. “They are also our best choice for nature-based climate change solutions because of the vast amounts of carbon that they store.”
In the future, researchers will focus on increasing the amount of water that flows from surrounding natural peatlands into well pads to further optimize soil moisture. This will be an essential step given the sensitivity of the native mosses to drying out and might therefore improve regrowth.
Mount Royal University, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and Athabasca University also contributed to this work. The study, Hydrologic assessment of mineral substrate suitability for true moss initiation in a boreal peatland undergoing restoration, appears in Ecological Engineering.
Ontario is scaling back species at risk protections, worrying advocates and inviting federal intervention
New rules narrow habitat definition, remove protections for some species, no longer require recovery plans
“With President Trump taking direct aim at our economy, it cannot be business as usual,” said Ontario Premier Doug Ford while announcing the government’s proposed Bill 5, also known as the Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, at the Toronto Stock Exchange on April 17.
The government has portrayed the current system as slow and cumbersome, driving away resource and development companies from Ontario. But the new bill is raising alarms from environmental groups, who say it could force the federal government to intervene to enforce its own overlapping protections. Here’s a look at some of the changes in the bill, which is currently being debated at second reading in the provincial legislature.
The new law would remove provincial protections for certain aquatic species and migratory birds that are also protected under the federal Species at Risk Act.
“Currently, proponents must get approval under both federal and provincial species legislation, causing unnecessary duplication,” said Gary Wheeler, spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks.
“Under the new legislation, proponents will not need separate provincial approval for activities affecting aquatic species and migratory birds already protected by federal legislation.”
David Browne, senior vice-president for conservation and policy at Birds Canada, is worried about this move, because he says the federal law was never designed to completely replace the provincial law.
The federal government has the power to order the province to protect the critical habitat of an endangered species, according to Brown, but he says it’s something Ottawa rarely does, and the preferred approach is to work with Ontario to protect birds and other wildlife.
“That tool is there as a backstop, not as, like, the way we want to do this. It’s there as a last resort,” he said.
“The way we want to do this is to have the provinces and territories taking their own actions with their own people on what they can do to protect the habitat for these birds. That’s the intention and the spirit of it.”
Ontario’s current Endangered Species Act will be replaced completely with a new Species Conservation Act if the current bill becomes law. One of the most significant changes is to the definition of what a species’ habitat is, which critics say raises questions about what, exactly, needs to be protected.
The current law considers the habitat to be all the areas that the species relies on for living, gathering food, migrating, hibernating and reproducing.
The new law narrows that definition to “a dwelling place, such as a den, nest or other similar place, that is occupied or habitually occupied by one or more members of a species for the purposes of breeding, rearing, staging, wintering or hibernating” and the area immediately around that dwelling place.
Other areas, such as those the animal uses to find food, don’t seem to be included.
“The definition of habitat is so narrow that what it means is less habitat than the species has now,” said Laura Bowman, a lawyer with the environmental law charity Ecojustice.
“And less habitat than the species has now, for a species already in decline, virtually ensures extirpation or extinction.”
The province says the changes are needed because of “uncertainty” over the current definition of habitat, and the new law sets clearer parameters for mining or construction companies to take the required protection measures.
Browne, with Birds Canada, says that while the previous definition of habitat was broad, the law allowed for further work to be done to define it more clearly.
Keeping the definition broad is done to account for each species having a different range, he says, noting that in the new version of the law, the definition is so narrow that it doesn’t even really refer to habitat.
“It’s just a particular piece of the habitat of any animal,” he said.
Bowman says that a key part of the existing Ontario legislation is that once a species is designated as being at risk, the government must come up with a plan to recover its population.
“The goal of the Endangered Species Act was to recover the species. So that means restore enough habitat that the species population becomes stable or is increasing.”
The new law no longer has that requirement. The government can still designate certain projects for special scrutiny if they impact species of concern, and impose restrictions to protect those species.
“But whether or not the species survives or recovers isn’t even a mandatory consideration,” Bowman said.
Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy, speaking in support of the bill in the Ontario legislature on Tuesday, said it will also increase enforcement powers for the province.
“There will be zero tolerance for bad actors who would dare to harm species,” he said. “Our new approach will leverage strong enforcement.”
He said that would include significant fines, potential jail time and even stronger investigative powers for provincial officers.
But Bowman says stronger enforcement powers don’t help if there aren’t many rules to enforce in the first place.
“Not like the legislation is robust enough to actually protect the species in the first place,” she said. “So the enforcement powers are, in my view, irrelevant.”
High levels of DDT found in N.B. brook trout decades after spraying
A pesticide sprayed on New Brunswick forests more than 55 years ago can still be found in some brook trout in the province, according to a new study.
DDT was sprayed from planes across northern and central New Brunswick — more than half the province — between 1952 and 1968 to control the spruce budworm feeding on coniferous trees.
And the synthetic insecticide left a residue that hasn’t disappeared.
“I think it’s important that people are aware of the fact that this legacy pollutant exists in today’s environment at very high concentrations,” said Joshua Kurek, an associate professor of environmental science at Mount Allison University and the principal investigator on the study.
Kurek said his research team sampled and studied trout, which he described as one of the most harvested fish in New Brunswick, from seven lakes across the province.
The harmful environmental effects of DDT became widely known to the public after Rachel Carson’s influential book about pesticides, Silent Spring, came out in the early 1960s.
New Brunswick stopped spraying DDT in the late 1960s, instead going with other pesticides, including fenitrothion, which was also controversial but was found to break down quickly and not persist in nature. The province now takes a more targeted approach to controlling the budworm.
But DDT, though it was not the most commonly used pesticide in the spray program, has persisted in soil and in New Brunswick’s aquatic environment.
High levels of an insecticide sprayed more than half a century ago have been found in brook trout in several New Brunswick lakes.
When Kurek looked at its presence in some brook trout populations, he discovered DDT in concentrations 10 times greater on average than the levels identified in Canadian ecological guidelines as being healthy for wildlife.
The guidelines say up to 14 nanograms of DDT per gram of trout, for example, would not be expected to cause adverse effects in wildlife that eat the fish.
Five of the seven lakes Kurek studied were in areas where DDT was sprayed: Upsalquitch, Goodwin, California, Sinclair and the Middle Peaked Mountain.
The remaining two — Anthony and Bennett — were outside the spray zones and were chosen for DDT comparisons across the province, Kurek said.
He said the dark and cool environment at the bottom of these lakes is favourable for preserving DDT.
“Typically, organisms acquire DDT through their diet, what they are eating,” Kurek said.
Insects that live in the lake mud will eat sediment with DDT content. These insects are food to the brook trout, then further consumed by loons, minks, otters and humans, said Kurek.
“So if it’s in the trout, it’s in these other organisms as well, because they form part of the the broader food web.”
Kurek described DDT as a “probable” carcinogen.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have recognized DDT as a probable human carcinogen.
Low levels of DDT were detected in trout from the two lakes outside the spray zones, which shows the insecticide travels in the environment, Kurek said.
He said it can travel atmospherically, and it can be carried from land to nearby water bodies by heavy rain or surface water.
DDT present in the food web associated with these lakes bio-accumulates, or keeps building up in the tissues of organisms such as trout, Kurek said.
“And then as you move up the food chain, its abundance in organisms also is magnified, and so organisms at higher levels in the food chain tend to have higher concentrations of pollutants like DDT in their tissues,” he said.
Kurek said his next research requires sampling more lakes to further understand how the pollutant enters the lakes from forest soil.
“We want fish populations that are doing well,” he said. “When they have high amounts of contaminants like DDT in their tissue, they’re not going to do very well.”
A spokesperson for New Brunswick’s Department of Health said in an email that the DDT levels found in the brook trout research exceed guideline levels for wildlife that consume trout, but not those for humans.
“The guidelines developed to protect human health have levels that are many hundred times higher because wildlife consumers, like birds of prey, have very different diet patterns than human,” spokesperson Tara Chislett said.
Chislett advised New Brunswickers to follow the provincial fish consumption limits, for various species, including trout.
According to New Brunswick’s fish consumption guidelines, people 12 or older can have eight monthly servings of brook trout that are shorter than 25 centimetres. Pregnant or breastfeeding women, infants and children up to the age of 11 should have only one monthly serving.
With fish that are more than 25 centimetres long, the guidelines recommend people 12 or older have no more than four monthly servings, while pregnant or breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to the age of 11 should not eat any.
The serving sizes mentioned in the provincial guidelines are 75 grams, 125 millilitres or “a portion of cooked fish that fits in the palm of the consumer’s hand.”
The reason for the vast gap between human and wildlife consumption guidelines is that humans only eat fillets, while the wildlife would consume the entire fish, hence consuming more DDT, said Kurek.
Kurek’s study is published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.
Snowmelt means untreated water being discharged from Yukon’s Eagle Gold mine site
Government says the water doesn’t contain cyanide, but does have sediment and metals
The Yukon government says the spring snowmelt means a “large amount” of extra water is being managed at the site of the Eagle Gold mine near Mayo.
An update from the government says the receiver in charge of the cleanup is discharging some untreated water from the site that contains sediments and metals that “may exceed regulatory levels.”
The statement says that’s being done to ensure water storage ponds at the site do not overflow.
The government says the water is meltwater that has come into contact with the open pit and waste rock storage areas at the mine site but it does not contain cyanide. The government says the risk from the sediment is being mitigated by filtering the surface water as it is being discharged through hay bales and other agents that attract particles and make them easier to remove.
The Eagle gold mine was the site of a disaster last June when a facility to separate gold from other solids failed, dumping millions of tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore into the environment. PricewaterhouseCoopers was made the mine’s receiver in August.
Remediation Technology News and Resource
(The following are selected items from the US EPA’s Tech Direct – http://clu-in.org/techdirect/)
Upcoming Live Internet Seminars
ITRC: Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Identification Framework Training – Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00PM-3:00PM EST (17:00-19:00 GMT). In 2023, the ITRC Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Framework was published to help environmental regulatory agencies and other stakeholders identify, evaluate, and manage CEC’s while acknowledging uncertainties in their environmental fate and transport, receptor exposure, and/or toxicity. Such an approach can be conducive to improved allocation of regulatory response resources and provide a foundation for communicating potential risk to stakeholders. The training presents this entirely new framework for identification, prioritization, and communication of CEC. Participants will learn the elements of the CEC framework and gain an understanding of the framework application from case studies. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
ITRC: PFAS Beyond the Basics: Topics on PFAS Biosolids: Sources, Transport, and Management of PFAS Surface Releases Training – Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1:00PM-3:00PM EDT (17:00-19:00 GMT). This training class builds on the earlier information for introductory PFAS topics presented in the PFAS 101 CLU-IN training. The ITRC PFAS Beyond the Basics class provides more information related to potential sources of PFAS in biosolids, implications of PFAS associated with land-applied biosolids, vadose zone fate and transport processes that likely govern biosolids releases, treatment/disposal options for PFAS-impacted biosolids, and regulatory considerations. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
ITRC: Reuse of Solid Mining Waste Training – Thursday, May 29, 2025, 1:00PM-3:00PM EST (17:00-19:00 GMT). Solid mining waste represents a significant quantity of waste material in the United States and around the world. Solid mining waste has a range of physical and chemical properties that make it both potentially valuable and potentially hazardous to human health and the environment. From a commercial perspective, mining removes most of the primary minerals of interest; however, waste materials can still contain valuable minerals and other materials that can be recovered. The ITRC Reuse of Solid Mining Waste training and guidance document is geared towards state regulators and environmental consultants, mining and manufacturing stakeholders, community and tribal stakeholders, and other who have an interest in the potential reuse of solid mining waste. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
ITRC: PFAS Beyond the Basics: PFAS Treatment Technologies Training – Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 1:00PM-3:00PM EDT (17:00-19:00 GMT). This training class builds on the earlier information for treatment technologies presented in the PFAS 101 CLU-IN training. It provides more in-depth information regarding considerations for implementing integrated PFAS treatment technologies and remediation strategies. This training introduces the concept that achieving site remedial objectives will likely necessitate the implementation of multiple treatment technologies and remediation strategies (i.e., an integrated remedial strategy). Specifically, this training uses a hypothetical conceptual site model to frame the discussion of remedial approaches for PFAS impacted source area soil, source area groundwater, and more dilute groundwater plumes. The training concludes with a discussion of select field implemented and developing disposal and destructive technologies for managing treatment residuals. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
New Documents and Web Resources
Technology Innovation News Survey Corner. The Technology Innovation News Survey contains market/commercialization information; reports on demonstrations, feasibility studies and research; and other news relevant to the hazardous waste community interested in technology development. Recent issues, complete archives, and subscription information is available at https://clu-in.org/products/tins/. The following resources were included in recent issues:
- Interim Measures Plumestop® Injection Pilot Study Completion Report Base Support Building Solid Waste Management Unit 014 Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Soil Gas Survey Results Supporting Groundwater Correction Action Plan (GCAP) Development for the Moab Site
- Geophysical Identification of Potential Groundwater – Surface Water Interactions in the Bonita Peak Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado
NAVFAC Fact Sheet on Thermal Desorption of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Soil (March 2025). As evidence mounts that PFAS in source area soil can contribute to large, persistent groundwater plumes, treatment technologies to minimize the mass of PFAS in soil are needed. The results from two demonstration studies are included, detailing successful PFAS soil remediation using both ex situ and in situ thermal treatment as conducted under the Department of Defense (DoD) Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). View the fact sheet at https://www.clu-in.org/NAVFAC-Thermal-Desorption.DoD Environmental Data Quality Workgroup (EDQW) Memorandum on Issues with Applying the Incremental Sampling Methodology (ISM) to PFAS Investigations (January 2025). ISM is a sampling protocol that involves collecting and combining a large number of soil sample increments of equal depth and mass across an area defined as a decision unit (DU). The ISM protocol is designed so a single composite sample result represents the mean concentration of a chemical constituent in the DU. After further review and consideration, the DoD EDQW has recommended to avoid the use of ISM for PFAS sampling and analysis. To learn more and view the memorandum, visit https://www.clu-in.org/EDQW-Memo.
New ESAA Members
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Envirosite
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United States
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Grande Prairie Environmental Association Speaker Series
May 15, 2025
Topic: Sampling Best Practices and Laboratory Industry Updates
Speakers: Blair Easton, Director for the Prairies, & Wendy Sears, BDR for the Prairies, ALS Laboratories
Location: Paradise Inn & Conference Centre (11201 100 Ave)
Sponsor: ALS Laboratories
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Join ALS Laboratories in a discussion on Sampling Best Practices and Laboratory Industry Updates. This is a great foundational talk, and refresher for all professionals. Come for the knowledge and stay for the networking! Door Prize available but only if you register!!!
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3rd IWA-YWP Canada Conference
Jun 18, 2025 – Jun 20, 2025
The IWA Young Water Professionals (YWP) Canada Conference is an event that brings together passionate and ambitious young water professionals from across Canada and around the world.
Organized by and for young professionals and students, this conference showcases the leadership, innovation, and technical abilities of YWPs in the water sector. Under the theme “Bridging Communities, Shaping the Future of Water Together,” the event offers an exciting platform to develop professional skills and expand networks through technical sessions, a poster competition, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities.
It’s an essential opportunity for the next generation of water leaders to connect, collaborate, and drive forward sustainable solutions for the future of water management.
Website Link To Register: https://iwa-ywp.ca/
Disaster Forum
October 28-30, 2025 – Kananaskis
For more information or to register, contact:
Byron Mazu, Ernco Drilling
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