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With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s  Water Industry Growth Program, IDEXX Tecta is advancing water safety with its automated bacterial testing platform, ensuring rapid onsite detection of harmful microorganisms and enhancing public health protection. IDEXX Tecta’s journey began more than two decades ago, not long after E. coli had killed seven people in Walkerton, Ontario and made more than 2,000 ill. It was the country’s worst case of contaminated drinking water, and faster detection would have saved lives. So [...]

With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s  Water Industry Growth Program, Forsee Instruments is advancing environmental monitoring with its innovative technology for detecting and identifying algae and cyanobacteria in water sources. Each summer, algae and cyanobacteria blooms are a common sight in lakes across Canada — and a common headache for water treatment plants that rely on surface water sources. Those films or mats can clog intake pipes. They create foul smells and tastes. And in the case of some [...]

With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s  Water Industry Growth Program, KenWave Solutions is transforming infrastructure management with its cutting-edge Dynamic Response Imaging™ (DRI™) technology. Around the world, the infrastructure that delivers municipal water is ageing. The pipeline walls are thinning and cracking. They’re losing stiffness and developing air pockets. That creates the risk of leaks, wasting precious water and all the money spent to treat it. Or worse, it can cause catastrophic bursts that shut down roads, cut off [...]