Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) will take part in the 2013 Ontario Business Mission to China next week. Fleming is the only college to participate in the provincial trade mission. The CAWT’s renowned water and wastewater expertise provides an excellent opportunity for the Centre to export its knowledge on an international level.
McGuinty Government Working to Solve Water Challenges at Home and Abroad January 9, 2013 10:00 am Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation Ontario is building on its strengths and expertise in clean water technology with a new Water Sector Strategy that will grow the economy, while protecting water at home and abroad. Through the Water Sector Strategy,
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Lab technician Marcus Sheppard reports on joining the small, seasonal population of Alert, Nunavut to do some exciting wetland work for the Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment. “Are you willing to travel for work?” At the time, it seemed like a standard interview question. Little did I know, however, that just six months later I’d be climbing
The Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) is participating in a massive international project to clean up the Ganges River, highlighted this week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper during his state visit to India. The CAWT, in partnership with the Ontario Clean Water Agency, Centennial College, Confederation College, and Northern College, will lead the Canada-India
The Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment was recently featured in the September/October issue of The Ontario Technlogist. The article was written by Mary Lou McLean and Linda Skilton. To read the full article, visit: www.ontariotechnologist.dgtlpub.com
Fleming College has been selected to receive approximately $800, 000 in funding from the College-Industry Innovation Fund. The Canada Foundation for Innovation made the announcement on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, with funding going to Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT). The CAWT, which is led by Senior Scientist Dr. Brent Wootton, will utilize
Lindsay, ON – March 27, 2012 – Fleming College professor Gordon Balch represented the Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) in Marseille, France. From March 12 to 17, Balch was one of 35, 000 participants at the World Water Forum, which is a forum devoted to solving global water issues. Forum organizers invited participants to submit
Lindsay, ON – March 20, 2012 – Fleming College will celebrate the importance of freshwater during their World Water Day event on Thursday, March 22, 2012. From noon to 1 p.m. in room 250 of the Frost Campus, Fleming will put the spotlight on freshwater with the help of speakers, a documentary, and a MOU signing
With his successful track record in applied research and innovative wastewater treatment technologies, it comes as no surprise to colleagues at Fleming that Dr. Brent Wootton, the College’s Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) Director and Senior Scientist, was named and featured under the People category in the January / February issue of Water’s Next 2012. A
Fleming College Senior Scientist Dr. Brent Wootton has been appointed to the Province of Ontario’s Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP). The Hon. Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation, named Wootton to the WaterTAP board for a term of one year. Dr. Wootton is the director of Fleming’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) at
Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) will receive a $150,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) it was announced last week. The grant will go toward purchasing research equipment for the Centre to enhance the college’s applied research capacity. “This funding will allow the CAWT to purchase advanced analytical
Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) will participate in a federally-funded watershed and lake rehabilitation program in Quebec. BlueLeaf Inc. of Drummondville (Québec) and Conseil de gouvernance de l’eau des bassins versants de la rivière Saint-François (COGESAF), made the announcement this week. The CAWT project, one of two for Petit-lac-Saint-Francois, is funded by
Minister of the Environment John Wilkinson visited the Frost Campus on Jan. 26 to announce funding of $7 million annually for four years for source water protection in Ontario. Mr. Wilkinson made the announcement at the Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT). The CAWT has received $150,000 of that funding to conduct research on floating
Lindsay ON – (November 24, 2010) – Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) had a direct role in advising the province on Ontario’s new Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act. The act, passed on Nov. 23 in the Ontario Legislature, builds on Ontario’s expertise in water protection services and technology. The legislation sets
Lindsay, ON – October 12, 2010 – Fleming College is one of a select group of colleges in Canada to receive funding from the College and Community Innovation Program, a collaborative initiative between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes
The SubWet 2.0 software program is used in the design of wetlands to treat waste water and improve water quality. Dr. Wootton, recently added cold climate simulation models to the software program. Wootton is the Senior Scientist and Director of the Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment at Fleming College in Lindsay, Ontario. “Fleming’s participation in the
Fleming College is this week officially releasing environmental software it developed in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Subsurface Wetland Model software – or Subwet 2.0 – has been developed by both UNEP and the college’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) to assist in the design of constructed wetlands to improve