Events

On June 9, 2026, the Ontario Water Consortium hosted an Innovation Showcase webinar highlighting recent progress from a collaborative research initiative focused on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Canadian water systems. The project brings together researchers, utilities, and technology providers to improve understanding of PFAS occurrence, transformation, and treatment in drinking water and wastewater [...]

On June 2, 2026, the Ontario Water Consortium hosted an Innovation Showcase webinar highlighting continued progress from the Waste to Chemicals (W2C) Alliance, building on earlier work introduced in 2024 through “Going Beyond Biogas” and a 2025 progress webinar that first shared results from the initiative’s long-term demonstration phase. The latest session focused on how [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]