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MANTECH, UofT Test New Tool to Measure Oxygen Demand in Drinking Water

As new technologies are adopted by the drinking-water industry, ways of analyzing treatment processes must keep pace. Guelph, Ontario-based MANTECH Inc. is working to do just that with its new online chemical oxygen demand analyzer for source and treated drinking waters, known as the PeCOD. It’s designed to measure the oxygen demand (OD) and associated [...]

2017-03-21T18:48:29+00:00October 13th, 2016|Features|

Ontario Water Innovation Week 2016

October 18, 2016: Water Innovation in Action 2.0 Location: Toronto, Ontario Organization: WaterTAP Website: http://www.waterinnovationaction.com/ Join your peers to discuss, plan, and celebrate the future of Ontario as a global water leader. Water Innovation in Action 2.0 brings together the province’s water sector players, including industry, government, municipalities, and academia, to discuss progress, plans, and goals for [...]

2017-03-21T18:48:29+00:00September 16th, 2016|Events|

Forward Water Draws on UofT Expertise to Advance Forward Osmosis Technology with SOWC Support

Going with the flow is an adage Forward Water Technologies won’t argue with. The Mississauga, Ontario company has developed a new forward osmosis technology that uses engineered “switchable salts” to purify wastewater. It’s a low-energy process for bulk cleanup of industrial wastewater streams and is aimed at alleviating the global demand for fresh water and [...]

2019-05-28T18:09:47+00:00August 24th, 2016|Features|

Strategic Recommendations for Infrastructure Funding

On June 24, 2016, the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC), Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) and Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) hosted a session for water leaders from technology companies, municipalities, and the broader water sector to present four strategic recommendations to the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, federal Minister for Infrastructure and Communities. The Government of [...]

2017-03-21T18:48:29+00:00August 11th, 2016|Features|

Advancing Water Technologies program call for proposals for large projects up to $500,000

SOWC’s Advancing Water Technologies (AWT) program is funded by the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. SOWC is now inviting applications by southern Ontario companies for a limited number of technology development projects of up to 2 years in duration that could benefit from a contribution of up to [...]

2017-03-21T18:48:29+00:00July 28th, 2016|News|

Getting to Net Zero Workshop

On March 22, 2016, the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) jointly hosted a workshop in London, Ontario entitled “Getting to Net Zero”, bringing together water companies, researchers, regulators as well as various levels of government. The purpose of this one-day event was to facilitate a structured engagement between [...]

2017-10-03T13:54:30+00:00July 8th, 2016|Features|

External Announcement: WEAO Student Design Competition 2016-2017

The Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change are pleased to once again partner on the 9th annual WEAO Student Design Competitions (SDC). The groups have joined forces because of a mutual interest in sustainable infrastructure, with this year’s theme being stormwater management and low impact [...]

2016-07-15T12:58:23+00:00June 22nd, 2016|News|

Greyter-Fleming Partnership Takes Residential Greywater-Recycling System Into Home Stretch

After spending more than four-and-a-half years developing the key components of a new residential greywater-treatment system, Greyter Water Systems is in the home stretch of fine-tuning its technology. “The process and components have been completed, and now we turn to field testing and final modifications before the rigorous six-month certification process,” Mark Sales, co-founder and [...]

2018-03-12T19:42:10+00:00June 10th, 2016|Features|

A.U.G. Signals, U of T Researchers Partner to Trial New Drinking Water Monitoring Technology

Introducing new technologies to the inherently conservative drinking water industry can often be met with trepidation. That’s not the case, however, for operators at a water-treatment facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Staff in Smiths Falls are embracing a pilot project to test a new, continuous monitoring sensor ultimately aimed at helping control levels of drinking [...]

2019-05-28T17:59:40+00:00May 24th, 2016|Features|

Western University Experts are Improving Water Treatment, Protection and Management with help from SOWC

When it comes to problems related to wastewater treatment, water resource management and groundwater remediation, Western University’s researchers are leading the way in finding the answers. “We have more than 50 researchers involved in water research,” says Douglas Keddy, Western’s research communications manager. “By combining their strengths with cutting-edge research facilities, we are finding innovative [...]

2017-03-21T18:48:31+00:00May 5th, 2016|Features|
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