Events

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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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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Unlocking Innovation: Wastewater Process Intensification Workshop

On December 4th, 2023, the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) and Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) played host to a Wastewater Process Intensification Workshop, with generous sponsorship from Veolia Water Technologies. This gathering was the second in a series and was designed to address the pressing challenges brought about by population and employment growth in Ontario [...]

2023-12-14T20:27:19+00:00December 5th, 2023|Events, News|
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Ontario’s Water Nexus: Bridging Academia, Enterprise, and Municipalities

Canada’s water utility sector came alive from November 12-15, as leaders from academia, enterprise, and municipalities converged at the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association's National Water and Wastewater Conference. This event, hosted at the Sheraton Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario, aimed to bridge the gap between these three essential pillars in the pursuit of innovative [...]

2023-12-06T19:37:35+00:00November 16th, 2023|Events, Features, News|
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Lambton Water Summit 2023 Unravels PFAS Challenges and Solutions

The Lambton Water Summit 2023, held on October 3rd, brought together experts from various fields to discuss one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: the presence of Polyfluroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in our water and wastewater. Co-hosted by Lambton College and the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC), and featuring a lineup of distinguished speakers, [...]

2023-11-17T19:37:55+00:00October 10th, 2023|Events, Features, News|
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Exploring Indigenous Cultural Competency: A Journey of Understanding

On September 28, 2023, an enlightening event titled "Indigenous Cultural Competency: An Introduction", organized and funded by the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, offered a diverse group of participants from the water sector a unique opportunity to delve into the rich tapestry of Indigenous cultures, histories, and contemporary issues including water challenges. Rachel [...]

2024-03-01T15:38:40+00:00October 5th, 2023|Events, Features, News, Water Industry Growth Program|
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