Across the province, wastewater treatment plant operators are feeling the pressure. They need to treat larger volumes of wastewater from growing populations, meet stricter standards and cope with more intense and frequent storms. The question is how. Expanding facilities or building new plants requires big investments at a time when over-stretched municipalities are looking for [...]
Ontario Water Consortium Graduate Leadership Council is hosting their first event! The webinar on Water inequality: Water insecurity in First Nations communities will be held on August 9th. Rachel Arsenault who is an advisor at Coeuraj Canada and Ph.D. student at York University joins us to speak about the water insecurity in First Nations Communities. Although the United Nations Joint [...]
Today’s water industry faces many challenges — from addressing hard-to-remove contaminants in drinking supplies to making wastewater treatment as energy-efficient as possible, cutting costs and carbon emissions. Could nanotech hold the answers? Dr. Sushanta Mitra, executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, believes so. “We are able to utilize the surface properties in [...]
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 [...]
October 18, 2016: Water Innovation in Action 2.0 Location: Toronto, Ontario Organization: WaterTAP Website: http://www.waterinnovationaction.com/ Join your peers to discuss, plan, and celebrate the future of Ontario as a global water leader. Water Innovation in Action 2.0 brings together the province’s water sector players, including industry, government, municipalities, and academia, to discuss progress, plans, and goals for [...]
Date: April 28, 2016 Title: Water Institute Research Symposium Description: The Water Institute’s annual Research Symposium will be held on April 28, 2016 at the University of Waterloo. The symposium will showcase the breadth of Waterloo’s water research and provide an opportunity for organizations to interact with researchers and students. Program and registration details can [...]
Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Niagara Falls, Canada Address: 6815 Stanley Ave, Niagara Falls, ON L2G 3Y9 Join the Canadian ground water industry for insights and networking opportunities. The Canadian Ground Water Conference & Expo 2016 includes product and industry sessions on June 10-11. We are pleased to announce that one of our featured presenters is the 2016 [...]
Event date and time Monday, September 28, 2015 (All day) to Wednesday, September 30, 2015 (All day) SOWC is attending WEFTEC 2015 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois from September 28-30. As the global demand for clean water grows, system operators and environmental managers are looking for sustainable solutions - and they're finding them in [...]
Event date and time Tuesday, October 6, 2015 (All day) to Thursday, October 8, 2015 (All day) 2015 marks the 3rd year for the World Water-Tech North America summit, supported by WaterTAP Ontario. Held on October 6-8, the summit will focus on city resilience and the future for advanced technologies in strengthening our urban water [...]
