Zeroing in on E. coli contamination
How Ontario’s researchers are transforming the water sector Taking promising research from the lab bench to the marketplace isn’t a simple journey. But with a little help, investigators at Ontario universities are commercializing their discoveries. And the technologies they’ve developed — from high-tech sensors to artificial intelligence and nano-catalysts — promise to change water monitoring, distribution and treatment, both locally and globally. In Part One of this mini series, learn about how McMaster University engineering professor Chang-qing Xu and Forsee [...]
New Health Canada guidance on NOM creating a market for Ontario innovation
MANTECH CEO Robert Menegotto got a lot of puzzled looks when he first started marketing his company’s chemical oxygen demand (COD) analyzer to drinking water plants. “You need to go talk to the wastewater folks,” they told him. “We just don’t do COD in drinking water.” For years, wastewater plant operators have used COD — a measure of the reactivity of organic material in the wastewater — to monitor the effectiveness of their treatment processes. However, few drinking water plants [...]
Ready or not? Managing Ontario’s municipal water and wastewater assets
Ontario municipalities are facing a deadline. Under provincial Regulation 588/17, they must have an asset management policy in place by July 2019, followed by targets for Levels of Service by July 2021. These requirements makes good business sense. To manage infrastructure appropriately, you need to know what you have and what condition it’s in. An asset management plan allows you to predict when your infrastructure will need maintenance or should be replaced, so you can budget accordingly, rather than face [...]