Doing more with less: the big potential of wastewater process intensification
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 ways to cut spending. On top of that, many simply don’t have space for expansion. Rahim Kanji, Executive Director of the Ontario Water Consortium (OWC), [...]
Webinar Series from OWC Graduate Leadership Council
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 Monitoring Program reports 99% of North Americans have access to safely managed water and sanitation facilities there are communities being left behind. On August 9th, [...]
Mastering microbes and membranes at the Institute for Water Innovation
When companies in the water sector want an R&D partner at the University of Toronto, they turn to the Institute for Water Innovation (IWI). Established in 2015, the research collective focuses on solving big water issues — from managing tailing ponds in the oil sands to designing wetlands that can remove stubborn contaminants. As manager of the IWI, Mandeep Singh Rayat serves as a kind of concierge, linking industrial partners with researchers in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering [...]