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PROJECTS l POLICY l INNOVATION
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026
VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1
DRINKING WATER
11 For the Love of Water
Water utilities have a responsibility to communicate
proactively to earn our trust when it comes to
drinking water.
By Robert Haller
PROJECT FEATURE
16 Plants are for Growing
Population boom drives expansion of Calgary’s
Bonnybrook WWTP.
By Saul Chernos
DOWNSTREAM
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STORMWATER
24 Forecasting the Unpredictable
First Drops
How machine learning is 昀椀lling gaps in stream昀氀ow
forecasting Canada-wide.
Flood mapping for Alberta and
freshwater survey.
By Lauren Belayneh
WATER STORY:
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CONSERVATION
Protecting the Oceans
28 Birds of a Feather
How Artash Nath is helping protect
marine species through AI and
machine learning.
By Oleksandra Sheludko
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Students and water leaders met across disciplines to
discover career pathways and strengthen the future of
the water workforce.
By Lauren Belayneh
Editor’s Note
TBD
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20 Connecting Canada’s Future Water Workforce
Partnership leads to 15 newly constructed
wetlands in Ontario.
By Monica Seidel and Claire Foran
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TOP 50 UPDATE
INFRASTRUCTURE
31 A Balancing Act
Annacis Water Supply Tunnel.
How municipalities can grow sustainably without
breaking the bank.
LEGAL COLUMN:
By Laura Mirabella
10 Mad as a Hatter
Drinking water contamination and
its e昀昀ects on brain chemistry.
WASTEWATER
34 Biosolids to Bene昀椀ts
By Aaron Atcheson and
Sophie Dennis Abro
Reshaping municipal wastewater management with
pelletization and resource recovery.
By Lauren Belayneh
H2OPINION
Take Water Canada
wherever you go
with our digital
magazine
38 The Missing Link
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Why lasting water solutions must repair
both infrastructure and the public con昀椀dence
that sustains it.
By Sadaf Mehrabi
ON THE COVER
Over the summer and fall, 15 new wetlands were created thanks to a partnership between Ducks
Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Watersheds Canada. Credit: Simon Lunn
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