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 to share progress on this initiative, now entering its final year. The session highlighted key findings in microbial community engineering, product recovery, and process optimization, [...]
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), convened a timely and impactful workshop to address one of the sector’s most urgent concerns: water. Titled Exploring Water Management Challenges & Innovation in Ontario's [...]
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 career in Australia and a track record of impactful research, Dr. McCarthy is now setting his sights on transforming Ontario’s water safety landscape. A Passion [...]