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Bridging Science and Society: Dr. Hamed Ibrahim’s Vision for Water Resilience

Dr. Hamed Ibrahim is advancing a transformative vision for how we understand and manage water in the 21st century. An Assistant Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto since January 2024, his research brings together advanced computational methods, a deep understanding of hydrological systems, and a focus on applied impact, particularly [...]

2025-10-03T19:04:43+00:00October 3rd, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|

Building Smarter Water Futures: Dr. Maricor Arlos Returns to Waterloo with a Mission to Rethink Contaminants, Technology, and Trust

After nearly a decade away, Dr. Maricor Arlos returned to the University of Waterloo in 2024, not to retrace her steps but to reshape the path forward. A Waterloo graduate three times over, Arlos had spent years conducting research in Switzerland and Alberta, gaining a sharper, more global perspective on water management, stakeholder priorities, and [...]

2025-09-09T18:16:54+00:00September 9th, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|

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|

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|

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|

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|

Charting a New Course in Waterborne Pathogen Research: Dr. David McCarthy’s Vision for Innovation and Collaboration

Waterborne pathogens pose significant risks to public health, from drinking water contamination to recreational waterborne diseases. Addressing these risks requires cutting-edge research and strong industry partnerships, precisely what Dr. David McCarthy, the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Waterborne Pathogens: Surveillance, Prediction, and Mitigation at the University of Guelph, aims to accomplish. With a distinguished [...]

2025-08-28T18:49:45+00:00April 28th, 2025|Features, News, Partnership|

Going beyond biogas – How the Waste to Chemicals Alliance is retooling anaerobic digestion

Anaerobic digestion can be used to digest organics from all kinds of sources: wastewater sludge, livestock manure, food waste and more. And the technology is simple. Just create an oxygen-free environment where naturally occurring microbes can flourish and let them munch away. Today, most anaerobic digestion is optimized to produce methane, which can be captured [...]

2024-10-22T21:11:03+00:00October 22nd, 2024|Features, News, Partnership|

Advancements in Addressing Water Monitoring Challenges: Highlights from the 2024 Meeting

The 2024 Challenges in Water Monitoring meeting, held on July 25 at McMaster Innovation Park, brought together leading experts, researchers, and industry professionals to discuss the latest advancements and collaborative efforts in water monitoring technologies. Organized by the MacWater Diagnostic Research Initiative, this bi-annual event aims to foster innovation and develop integrated water-sensing technologies through [...]

2024-09-03T14:43:37+00:00September 3rd, 2024|Features, News, Partnership|

OWC Webinar: Advancements in Addressing PFAS in Canadian Water Systems

Following the successful Kick-Off Event for the "Investigating New Forever Chemicals in Canadian Water Systems Project", held in Spring 2023, a webinar was hosted by the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) on June 20, 2024 to provide an opportunity to delve deeper into the progress and ongoing research in the detection and treatment of per- and [...]

2025-07-17T16:02:51+00:00June 21st, 2024|Features, News, Partnership|
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