




Anaerobic digestion is getting a game-changing upgrade. Professors Christopher Lawson and Jay Werber are leading a national effort to turn municipal organics into high-value chemicals instead of biogas. With Veolia, OCWA, and the City of Toronto onboard, this initiative is redefining what circular resource recovery can look like in Canada.

New results from over 1,300 samples reveal how PFAS behave and sometimes increase during treatment, as teams at the University of Waterloo and Western University advance destruction technologies and AI-powered detection tools. Professors Scott Hopkins and Franco Berruti are pushing PFAS research further with novel methods, commercial-scale testing, and new insights from real-world systems.

The Ontario Water Consortium has submitted a proposal to establish the Innovating Water for Ontario’s Growth program. This initiative seeks to support the development, commercialization, and adoption of advanced technologies to address the growing pressures on water and wastewater systems from urbanization, aging infrastructure, and environmental challenges, fostering sustainable growth across Ontario.

The Ontario water industry is evolving. And so is the Ontario Water Consortium, with expanded offerings available through paid partnerships.

Ontario Water Consortium enables water solutions that addresses the big challenges of today. As the platform for industry, academia, government, and end-users, OWC connects leaders at the forefront of water innovation.


OWC has also created a valuable program whereby technology innovators can engage with a panel of experts to gain insight into their water technology development and commercialization challenges.
DAVID OHAYON, CANADIAN MARKET DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, IPEX
"It was a very good cross-section of experienced and knowledgeable people,” he says. “It helped us to determine where it is that our next steps were going to be taking place."
OWC has also created a valuable program whereby technology innovators can engage with a panel of experts to gain insight into their water technology development and commercialization challenges.
DAVID OHAYON, CANADIAN MARKET DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, IPEX
"It was a very good cross-section of experienced and knowledgeable people,” he says. “It helped us to determine where it is that our next steps were going to be taking place."
NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS, EVENT
July 9, 2025
In October 2024, the Ontario Water Consortium published “Going Beyond Biogas”, introducing the Waste to Chemicals Alliance – a multi-partner collaboration exploring how anaerobic digestion (AD) can evolve from a conventional energy recovery tool into a platform for producing high-value chemicals from organic waste.
On June 10, 2025, OWC hosted the Alliance’s first public webinar to share progress on this initiative, now entering its final year. [...]
NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS, EVENT
July 9, 2025
On June 5, 2025, the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) hosted the second in a series of webinars exploring the progress of a major collaborative research initiative focused on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Canadian water systems. Co-led by Professor Scott Hopkins (University of Waterloo) and Professor Franco Berruti (Western University), the project exemplifies how academic, municipal, and private-sector partners can work together to address one of the most complex and urgent issues facing water systems today.[...]
FEATURES, NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS
June 12, 2025
Ontario’s greenhouse sector, anchored in Essex County, is a global leader in greenhouse vegetable production. Yet with this success comes increasing responsibility. On March 27, 2025, the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC), in partnership with the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG), University of Windsor Agriculture UWindsor (AgUWin), and the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER), convened a timely and impactful workshop to address one of the sector’s most urgent concerns: water.[...]