With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, IDEXX Tecta is advancing water safety with its automated bacterial testing platform, ensuring rapid onsite detection of harmful microorganisms and enhancing public health protection. IDEXX Tecta’s journey began more than two decades ago, not long after E. coli had killed seven people in Walkerton, [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Forsee Instruments is advancing environmental monitoring with its innovative technology for detecting and identifying algae and cyanobacteria in water sources. Each summer, algae and cyanobacteria blooms are a common sight in lakes across Canada — and a common headache for water treatment plants that [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, KenWave Solutions is transforming infrastructure management with its cutting-edge Dynamic Response Imaging™ (DRI™) technology. Around the world, the infrastructure that delivers municipal water is ageing. The pipeline walls are thinning and cracking. They’re losing stiffness and developing air pockets. That creates the risk of [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Aquanty is making real-time flood forecasting a reality by adding machine learning to its HydroGeoSphere platform. As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, flood forecasting is becoming increasingly important. But creating accurate predictions has never been easy, and shifting precipitation [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. is revolutionizing tailings management within the mining industry through its pioneering dewatering technology. Tailings are a massive challenge for the mining industry. Decades are required for suspended particles to settle and form a slurry, preventing water reuse. Companies are forced to [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Digital Water Solutions is reshaping water distribution network management with their groundbreaking hydrant.AI technology. Today, many communities lose up to half of the drinking water they treat due to leaks in their distribution networks. To help tackle the problem, Digital Water Solutions (DWS) developed [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Dynamita North America is revolutionizing the integration of sewer systems and wastewater treatment plants through the implementation of digital twins. It’s time to stop thinking of sewer systems and wastewater treatment plants as two separate siloes. After all, what happens in the sewers has [...]
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, A.U.G. Signals is addressing the impact of toxic tire chemicals in waterways by adapting their proven TRITON system As vehicles drive along, their tires shed particles of rubber and plastic tire. Typically, they’re tiny. But with more than a billion cars in the world, [...]
Dear Members, Partners, and Friends of the Ontario Water Consortium, As 2023 winds down, we take pride in celebrating the strides taken and the milestones achieved by the Ontario Water Consortium. This year has stood as a testament to our unwavering mission: fostering innovation in water management through collaborative research, real-world testing, and strategic partnerships. [...]
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 [...]
