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This article was originally published on Waterloo Stories by Bob Burtt. The Grand River watershed will soon be home to a living lab where new technologies in water and wastewater will be researched, developed, demonstrated and exported globally, says David Rudolph, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and member of the Water Institute at the University of Waterloo. The activities are being facilitated through a collaborative partnership known as the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC). "We need [...]

The Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) and ETI Dynamics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will create opportunities for collaboration benefiting the new India Water Innovation Clusters (IWIC) and Ontario's international water presence. The India Water Innovation Cluster will be home to a world class integrated platform that will further applied research, development and demonstration in the water sector through academic, government and industry collaboration. The IWIC will accelerate knowledge transfer from research to industry and focus on addressing [...]

This article was originally published on Water Canada by Grahame Rivers While innovative companies in the water sector are developing groundbreaking technologies aimed at providing solutions to municipalities, industrial enterprises, and consumers with practical ways to solve water challenges in an environmentally responsible way, these companies must also be able to demonstrate that their technology works outside of the lab and in the real world. There are significant costs in terms of the time and money needed to obtain land [...]