SOWC Joins Game-changers at Knowledge Symposium
Brenda Lucas, SOWC Executive Director welcomes the audience within her opening remarks On June 17, SOWC and IBM Canada co-hosted an International Water and Environmental Management Knowledge Symposium. The open exchange focused on integrated water and environment management challenges, solutions, best practices and innovative partnerships and marked the launch of the SOWC's data integration platform. The platform is now live for users to access, visualize and manipulate data streaming from the Grand River. "SOWC has developed a network [...]
SOWC Hosts Guelph Wastewater Facility Tours
New water research equipment is available for users to access within the facility On June 19, SOWC and the University of Guelph began hosting tours of the SOWC Guelph Wastewater Facility. Throughout the morning, several companies and organizations viewed the newly-commissioned facility to learn about its unique capacity for bench and pilot-scale development and demonstration of wastewater technologies. "The Guelph Wastewater Facility provides users with access to municipal wastewater flows directly from the City of Guelph's Wastewater Treatment [...]
Ontario Takes Big Data Analytics to the Watershed
This article was originally published in A Smarter Planet by Dr. David Rudolph We all live in watersheds; areas of land so defined because the water that falls within its boundaries, circulates through it and is influenced by how the land is managed and by the demands that are placed on it. They supply our drinking, agricultural and manufacturing water needs and sustain ecological systems. As regions swell through urban sprawl and population growth, our impact on watersheds increases. Because [...]