Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets
Research Themes
Researchers will initially focus on 7 inter-related lines of inquiry.
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AWCA Honored by Water's Next
Water Canada magazine has selected the ACWA project as an 2012 Innovation honoree in Water's Next, their annual collection of Canadian Water achievements.
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Facilities Under Construction
ACWA Research Facilities are scheduled for completion in the fall of 2012.
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Welcome to ACWA's website!
Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) is a partnership between the University of Calgary and The City of Calgary. ACWA's main goal is to develop wastewater treatment technologies that will remove existing and emerging contaminants to improve ecosystem and human health. It is a place where researchers, practitioners and industry can work together to solve important problems facing cities everywhere.
ACWA's infrastructure is imbedded within The City's Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment facility and includes advanced, large scale wastewater treatment processes and 12 replicate, experimental streams that can be dosed with various constituents of municipal effluents. Together these facilities will be used to demonstrate advanced treatment techniques and the impact of the resultant effluent on the environment. ACWA's onsite laboratory has state-of-the-art facilities to quantify contaminant residues, identify and culture cells, determine water-borne pathogens and examine gene expression in model organisms. Additional ACWA laboratories (Medical Microbiology, Aquatic and Stable Isotope) on the University of Calgary campus complement and support ACWA's research program.
The tabs above will allow you to browse through our website to learn more about ACWA, the people involved in ACWA research programs, and possible opportunities for involvement. If you see an opportunity to collaborate, whether you are from industry, a public utility, or a college or university, feel free to contact us at acwa(at)ucalgary.ca or (403) 220-7753 for more information.
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Lee Jackosn Executive Director, ACWA University of Calgary |
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Wolf Keller Director, Water Resources The City of Calgary |
