Ask the Expert: Brian Mergelas on Innovation and Technology in the Water Sector
This article was originally published by Partners in Project Green. For businesses and government in the Greater Toronto Area, managing water resources effectively can become a complicated, challenging task. Many organizations, such as Partners in Project Green, exist to provide resources and collaborative opportunities to deal with water-related challenges. Another such organization is WaterTAP, Ontario's water technology hub. WaterTAP exists to champion and support Ontario's status as a world water technology hub by bringing private sector experience to the challenge [...]
SOWC Company Project Highlight – MANTECH Inc.
MANTECH has a solution for 15 minute COD Analysis - Green, Safe and Fast Mantech is changing the way we test water quality with a new technology that is safer for humans and the environment. It's called the PeCOD analyzer and, after a recent successful testing of the technology's performance, the Guelph-based company is set to launch it across North America and Europe. "We definitely think we have a safe, green alternative to test water quality," says Robert Menegotto, Mantech's [...]
SOWC Researcher Profile – Dr. Vassili Karanassios
Dr. Vassili Karanassios, Professor of Chemistry and SOWC Sensor Node Researcher at the University of Waterloo Vassili Karanassios is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo and works closely with SOWC through the SOWC Sensor Node - a segment of the platform that enables the development of automated, wireless and distributed sensing of pathogens, chemicals and elemental contamination that may be present in water and provides infrastructure to design, prototype and validate sensors [...]