Photo Credit: Keith Dunlap (GMG) From CBC News, November 19, 2021: A Windsor-based engineer said climate change is taking a toll on the health of the Great Lakes and this could in turn have an impact on the quality of drinking water for millions of people. Saad Jasim, who is also president of the International [...]
When Elsayed Elbeshbishy finished his PhD in environmental engineering in 2011, he was eager to add some applied experience to his academic expertise. He got that opportunity thanks to Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that connects researchers with industrial partners. The program funded an 18-month post-doc fellowship with Trojan Technologies, where Elbeshbishy helped develop a [...]
Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Fellow Partnerships Available To Ontario Water Companies Waterloo, Ontario – The Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) and Mitacs have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to open strategic partnership opportunities between Ontario’s innovative water companies, municipal utilities and highly trained college, undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. This agreement builds on [...]
Around the world, wastewater regulations are getting stricter. But meeting them isn’t always easy. Remote and rural municipalities lack the tax base to support needed upgrades and the higher operating costs that often accompany them. Attracting and retaining the staff to run complex systems can also be challenging. Meanwhile, urban areas often lack space [...]
When you add nitrates and phosphates to soil, these nutrients help plants thrive. Adding them add them to water, however, isn’t so good. When nutrient-rich fertilizers or sewage gets washed into lakes and rivers, they fuel an explosion of algae. That algae can clog intake pipes of drinking water plants. It can make it [...]
Ontario has a strong track record of water innovation. Today, companies across the province are developing ground-breaking technology to treat water and wastewater better, faster and more cost effectively. But bringing a new product to market and driving adoption aren’t simple tasks. That’s why OWC launched our Expert Panels last fall. When an enterprise [...]
“Brokers like OWC link opportunities, stakeholders, and drivers and we play a key role in the water technology innovation ecosystem to accelerate technology commercialization in Ontario.” -Rahim Kanji Municipal water and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume significant amounts of energy and subsequently produce large quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These GHG [...]
