External Announcement: WEAO Student Design Competition 2016-2017
The Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change are pleased to once again partner on the 9th annual WEAO Student Design Competitions (SDC). The groups have joined forces because of a mutual interest in sustainable infrastructure, with this year’s theme being stormwater management and low impact development. The SDCs are intended to promote “real world” design experience for students interested in pursuing a career in water and wastewater engineering and sciences. [...]
Greyter-Fleming Partnership Takes Residential Greywater-Recycling System Into Home Stretch
After spending more than four-and-a-half years developing the key components of a new residential greywater-treatment system, Greyter Water Systems is in the home stretch of fine-tuning its technology. “The process and components have been completed, and now we turn to field testing and final modifications before the rigorous six-month certification process,” Mark Sales, co-founder and chief executive of Toronto-based Greyter, says of the company’s new Greyter HOME water-recycling solution. The final tweaks are being undertaken in collaboration with researchers at [...]
A.U.G. Signals, U of T Researchers Partner to Trial New Drinking Water Monitoring Technology
Introducing new technologies to the inherently conservative drinking water industry can often be met with trepidation. That’s not the case, however, for operators at a water-treatment facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Staff in Smiths Falls are embracing a pilot project to test a new, continuous monitoring sensor ultimately aimed at helping control levels of drinking water disinfection by-products, or DBPs. “This team of operators in Smiths Falls is very proactive,” says Cindy Dongxin Hu, senior project manager at A.U.G. Signals [...]