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OWC Innovation Showcase Fall Series: Connecting Research and Innovation Across Ontario

This fall, the Ontario Water Consortium hosted its Innovation Showcase Fall Series, a three-part webinar program highlighting applied research and interdisciplinary collaboration across Ontario’s water sector. With over 200 registrants from academia, government, and industry, the series showcased emerging tools and partnerships advancing sustainable water monitoring, treatment, and ecosystem restoration. The series opened with a [...]

2025-12-03T19:44:52+00:00November 25th, 2025|Events, News, Partnership|
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PFAS Management in Canada Workshop: Driving Collaboration and Solutions

On September 16, 2025, Urban Water TMU hosted the PFAS Management in Canada Workshop, bringing together government representatives, municipal operators, researchers, consultants, technology providers, non-profits, and academics to address the pressing challenges posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Canadian water systems and biosolids. The workshop combined keynote presentations, panels, and interactive roundtable discussions [...]

2025-11-12T14:02:05+00:00November 12th, 2025|Events, News, Partnership|
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Accelerating Market Access in Water Innovation: Independent Robotics and the Ontario Water Consortium

When emerging technologies meet the complexity of the water sector, even the most promising innovations can struggle to find traction. This was the case for Independent Robotics (IR), a deep tech company aiming to bring its AI-powered Insight Engine and Aqua 2 autonomous robotic platform into the water space. While the technologies had clear potential [...]

2025-10-28T17:28:12+00:00October 28th, 2025|Features, News|
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Assessing Aging Asbestos Cement Pipe: Insights from the Brabant Water Pilot Project

The Challenge of Aging Infrastructure Across Ontario and beyond, municipalities face a pressing challenge: managing aging water infrastructure, particularly asbestos cement (AC) pipe. AC water distribution mains, which make up about 11% of North America’s water network, fail at an average rate of 10.3 breaks per 100 miles each year. With more than 40% of [...]

2025-10-21T19:48:33+00:00October 17th, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|
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Bridging Science and Society: Dr. Hamed Ibrahim’s Vision for Water Resilience

Dr. Hamed Ibrahim is advancing a transformative vision for how we understand and manage water in the 21st century. An Assistant Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto since January 2024, his research brings together advanced computational methods, a deep understanding of hydrological systems, and a focus on applied impact, particularly [...]

2025-10-03T19:04:43+00:00October 3rd, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|
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Building Smarter Water Futures: Dr. Maricor Arlos Returns to Waterloo with a Mission to Rethink Contaminants, Technology, and Trust

After nearly a decade away, Dr. Maricor Arlos returned to the University of Waterloo in 2024, not to retrace her steps but to reshape the path forward. A Waterloo graduate three times over, Arlos had spent years conducting research in Switzerland and Alberta, gaining a sharper, more global perspective on water management, stakeholder priorities, and [...]

2025-09-09T18:16:54+00:00September 9th, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|
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OWC Innovation Showcase Summer Series: Advancing Water Innovation Across Ontario

This July, the Ontario Water Consortium hosted its Innovation Showcase Summer Series, a three-part webinar program highlighting applied research and emerging technologies across Ontario’s water sector. With close to 200 registrants, the series convened municipal leaders, researchers, engineers, and technology developers around practical solutions to the complex challenges facing water infrastructure, operations, and climate resilience. [...]

2025-08-06T13:42:25+00:00July 28th, 2025|Events, Features, News, Partnership|
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Investigating PFAS in Canadian Water Systems: Cross-Sector Collaboration Advances Research on Emerging Contaminants

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 [...]

2025-07-22T17:55:40+00:00July 9th, 2025|Events, Features, News, Partnership|
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Transforming Anaerobic Digestion: New Research Shows a Path Beyond Biogas

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 [...]

2025-07-22T17:56:21+00:00July 9th, 2025|Events, Features, News, Partnership|
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Driving Innovation in Water Management: Reflections on the Ontario Greenhouse Workshop

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), [...]

2025-07-09T17:02:37+00:00June 12th, 2025|Events, Features, News, Partnership|
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