World Water-Tech North America 2015
Event date and time Tuesday, October 6, 2015 (All day) to Thursday, October 8, 2015 (All day) 2015 marks the 3rd year for the World Water-Tech North America summit, supported by WaterTAP Ontario. Held on October 6-8, the summit will focus on city resilience and the future for advanced technologies in strengthening our urban water networks. Leading edge municipalities, private utilities, corporate investors, engineering giants and emerging technology companies will meet in Toronto to discuss new paths to finance and [...]
SOWC Welcomes Fleming College as New Post-secondary Partner in Consortium
Following unanimous approval by its Advisory Board, the Southern Ontario Water Consortium is proud to announce the addition of Fleming College as a new post-secondary partner. It is the first post-secondary institution to be introduced as a new member since SOWC's establishment in 2011, increasing the Consortium's membership to nine partners. "Now that we've completed the building phase of the SOWC infrastructure, we've been able to establish a mechanism for considering new post-secondary members of the Consortium", says Brenda Lucas, [...]
UW Researcher Finds Way to Remediate Contaminants in a More Natural Way
A University of Waterloo researcher is the first to develop a new way to remediate contaminated groundwater by capitalizing on the power of mother nature. With the help of a specially-designed field testing site built in part by the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC), Mahsa Shayan was able to test the effectiveness of combining a chemical remediation process with a biological one, using a real-world setting. In her study, Shayan used a reduced amount of persulfate along with bacteria found [...]