OWC Partnership with Mitacs
Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Fellow Partnerships Available To Ontario Water Companies Waterloo, Ontario – The Ontario Water Consortium (OWC) and Mitacs have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to open strategic partnership opportunities between Ontario’s innovative water companies, municipal utilities and highly trained college, undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. This agreement builds on the programs available through Mitacs which connect high-calibre academic candidates with industry, not-for-profit organizations, and municipalities to foster innovation. Mitacs contributes roughly half of the [...]
Bishop Water: simple systems spell success
Around the world, wastewater regulations are getting stricter. But meeting them isn’t always easy. Remote and rural municipalities lack the tax base to support needed upgrades and the higher operating costs that often accompany them. Attracting and retaining the staff to run complex systems can also be challenging. Meanwhile, urban areas often lack space to expand their facilities. Bishop Water offers a simple solution. The Renfrew, Ontario company has developed the BioCord™ Reactor. These compact cubes provide an affordable, [...]
Tracking nitrates in real time: AUG Signals’ technology changes the game
When you add nitrates and phosphates to soil, these nutrients help plants thrive. Adding them add them to water, however, isn’t so good. When nutrient-rich fertilizers or sewage gets washed into lakes and rivers, they fuel an explosion of algae. That algae can clog intake pipes of drinking water plants. It can make it difficult for fish to survive, using up oxygen as it decomposes. And it can sometimes produce toxins that contaminate drinking water — like it did [...]