Update your calendar with the dates for Blue Cities 2025 — May 14 & 15 in Mississauga. Don’t miss this event shaped specifically for senior managers, thought leaders and cross-sector collaborators from water, wastewater and stormwater utilities; multiple levels of government; public and environmental health, national and provincial NGOs; Indigenous-led organizations; and knowledge and service providers from the private sector.
What topics will be discussed at Blue Cities 2025?
This year’s conference theme is Navigating the waves: Strategic management of risk in uncertain times and will feature sessions on:
- Managing risk related to aging infrastructure and service interruptions
- Providing equitable, affordable servicing in the face of escalating costs
- Building resilient infrastructure for new housing
- Creating pathways to net zero wastewater
- Remaining nimble through adaptive long-range planning
- Preparing for climate shocks and trends
- Monitoring and removing persistent, mobile contaminants
- Preventing the spread of infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance
Who can you expect to see at Blue Cities 2025?
- Leading experts, decision makers and collaborators from across multiple sectors
- A curated speaker roster of international experts selected by CWN
- Exhibitors from North America’s top knowledge and service providers
- Sponsors that can offer value to Canada’s water leaders
- 250 delegates from Canada, the U.S. and Indigenous Nations
Blue Cities is hosted by Canadian Water Network (CWN). As a non-partisan, non-profit organization, CWN works with a wide range of organizations and individuals with diverse perspectives and expertise to solve complex water issues.
Sponsored in part by the Canadian Municipal Water Consortium
Land Acknowledgement
Canadian Water Network (CWN) respects the deep connection that First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples have with the land and its waters across Canada. We are grateful for the privilege to work and live here.
We honour and recognize the significance of treaties that establish the relationship between Indigenous peoples and settlers. Our office in Waterloo, Ontario is located on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. It is situated within the Haldimand Tract, on land that was granted to the Six Nations of the Grand River.
Blue Cities 2025 will be held in Mississauga, Ontario on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Huron-Wendat and Wyandot Nations. Today, the City of Mississauga is home to many global Indigenous peoples.