This article was originally published in Waterloo Stories by Victoria Van Capellen Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Dave Rudolph and his group within the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) have successfully launched their smart watershed data integration platform to monitor the hydrologic conditions and water quality within a region of Ontario’s Grand River watershed and [...]
Are you interested in a future within the Ontario Water Industry? The Ontario Water Works Association (OWWA) is offering a 1-day seminar on September 11, 2014 for current students and 2014 graduates that want to get involved in the water industry. As a seminar participant, you will have the opportunity to network with professionals in [...]
Water's Next nominations are now open! Water Canada is proud to relaunch their annual awards program celebrating Canadian water excellence. With two revamped categories and an all-new format, they expect Water's Next 2015 will be their best one yet. Their winners will now be selected from two overarching categories: People (Business, Government, Young Professionals, and [...]
2014-2015 Quebec-Ontario Cooperation for Agri-Food Research Competition Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Deadline: September 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. Value: $80,000 (one-year projects) $160,000 (two-year projects) $250,000 (three-year projects) Description: This program offers funding for joint Ontario-Quebec projects supporting water management and integrated pest management research issues of interest to both provinces. Competition Objectives: [...]
This article was originally published in IT World Canada by Howard Solomon From little things, big data grows. That might be the slogan of the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, a partnership of eight Ontario universities which is building a data platform for water testing technologies that will help protect drinking water and predict floods. Click [...]
Event date and time Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (All day) to Friday, November 14, 2014 (All day) Water Briefing is proud to support the second annual World Water-Tech North America Summit, the fifth event in the World Water-Tech series, which gathers the key stakeholders from every part of the water value chain. Hosted by Rethink [...]
This article was originally published in Daily Commercial News by Peter Kenter Sewage is generally thought of as a liability. However a unique program uniting the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC), the City of London and Western University intends to transform waste streams into a valuable commodity with the establishment of an $8-million wastewater centre [...]
2014-2015 Quebec-Ontario Cooperation for Agri-Food Research Competition Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Deadline: September 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. Value: $80,000 (one-year projects) $160,000 (two-year projects) $250,000 (three-year projects) Description: This program offers funding for joint Ontario-Quebec projects supporting water management and integrated pest management research issues of interest to both provinces. Competition Objectives: [...]
Brenda Lucas, SOWC Executive Director welcomes the audience within her opening remarks On June 17, SOWC and IBM Canada co-hosted an International Water and Environmental Management Knowledge Symposium. The open exchange focused on integrated water and environment management challenges, solutions, best practices and innovative partnerships and marked the launch of the SOWC's data [...]
New water research equipment is available for users to access within the facility On June 19, SOWC and the University of Guelph began hosting tours of the SOWC Guelph Wastewater Facility. Throughout the morning, several companies and organizations viewed the newly-commissioned facility to learn about its unique capacity for bench and pilot-scale development [...]