Community Rules & Etiquette – Water Leadership and Innovation Action Forum
Etiquette and Moderation of the Water Leadership and Innovation Action Forum Welcome to OWC's Water Leadership and Innovation Action Forum! Thank you for joining our community of water professionals from institutions, industries, and municipalities. To ensure that all members of this community have the best experience, we have developed some guidelines for participation. By joining the Water Leadership and Innovation Action Forum on LinkedIn, you are agreeing that you have read, and will adhere to the [...]
Delivering R&D with a difference at the Lambton Water Centre
In 2020, Research Infosource ranked Sarnia’s Lambton College the top research college in Ontario and second Canada-wide. The Lambton Water Centre (LWC) is a big reason why, helping companies optimize technologies, scale up projects and reduce operational costs since 2013. “Ontario is a very innovative province with respect to developing water technologies,” says Mehdi Sheikhzadeh, the college’s VP of research and innovation. But, he continues, there are very few applied R&D centres in Ontario — or even across Canada [...]
Talking tiny: Virtual workshop explores the game-changing potential of nanotechnology in the water sector
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 a much, much better way than conventional technologies,” he explains. That ability to modify materials at the atomic level opens up a world of possibilities. [...]