Exploring Indigenous Cultural Competency: A Journey of Understanding
On September 28, 2023, an enlightening event titled "Indigenous Cultural Competency: An Introduction", organized and funded by the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, offered a diverse group of participants from the water sector a unique opportunity to delve into the rich tapestry of Indigenous cultures, histories, and contemporary issues including water challenges. Rachel Arsenault, an Indigenous Kwe of Ojibwe and Odawa descent from Wiikwemkoong Unceded First Nation on Manitoulin Island, and Roya Damabi, an experienced policy and systemic [...]
Spiral thinking: a cheaper, greener and more compact way to treat wastewater
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, Aquicon Water is demonstrating how their de Hoxar Spiral separator saves dollars, as well as space. Across Canada, population growth and urbanization are putting pressure on municipal wastewater treatment plants. And that leaves many cities that have maxed out their available land in a tight spot. Aquicon Water has a solution. At various stages in the activated sludge process, conventional treatment plants use large tanks to settle solids to [...]
Making a quantum leap in groundwater mapping
With support from the Ontario Water Consortium’s Water Industry Growth Program, CSMC is showing how space technology could change the game here on Earth. As humans begin colonizing space, they’re going to need water. That’s why the Canadian Space Mining Corporation (CSMC) is developing ways to find and extract it as efficiently as possible. “We don’t have the luxury in space of drilling holes, taking measurements and hoping that a stick in the ground is going to tell us how [...]