



AI-Driven Wastewater Monitoring Through McMaster–Veolia Collaboration

Advancing Ontario water solutions that create resilient infrastructure
and power Canada’s national priorities.


The Ontario Water Consortium enables water solutions that address 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."
FEATURES, NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS
June 10, 2026
Wastewater treatment depends on the stability of complex microbial communities that drive biological processes and ensure effective solids separation. At the centre of this system is the balance between filamentous bacteria and floc-forming bacteria within activated sludge. When this balance is disrupted, plants can experience sludge bulking, reduced settling efficiency, and declining treatment performance.[...]
FEATURES, NEWS
May 6, 2026
Each spring in Ontario, the thaw tests watershed systems in ways that are often difficult to predict.
Snowpack melts, frozen soils shift rapidly into saturation, and river levels rise unevenly across basins. In some watersheds, conditions move from stable to strained within hours. For conservation authorities and municipal operators, these weeks are operationally intense and increasingly unpredictable.[...]
FEATURES, NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS
April 28, 2026
Wastewater disinfection is essential for protecting public health and downstream water quality, but conventional control approaches such as flow-pacing struggle to reflect real-world operating conditions. In practice, disinfectant demand varies with changes in hydraulics, water quality, and operational conditions, which are not fully captured by flow alone. This can lead to inefficient dosing, unnecessary chemical use, and inconsistent treatment performance.[...]






























