Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Researchers prove UV LED light can revolutionize wastewater treatment
For the first time, Dalhousie researchers and their industrial partners have proven UV LED light has the power to treat municipal wastewater. The game-changing finding established with collaborators AquiSense and Halifax Water is expected to trigger a sea change in the way cities disinfect the water we flush down our drains, promising a safer and more sustainable future for […]
Sable Island’s shifting landscape offers insights into global groundwater loss
Almost 200 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia sits a slender, crescent-shaped spit of land known for mythic wild horses that roam its dunes, seals that dot its low-slung shores and hundreds of shipwrecks still populating its watery depths. For centuries, Sable Island has also been home to rare seabirds, plants and insects, despite […]
Covid-19 spread through wastewater could devastate some marine mammel species
Certain species of whales, seals and other endangered marine mammals could fall victim to COVID-19 infection through wastewater and sewage that seeps into their marine habitats, researchers at Dalhousie say in a new study that has found some of the animals to be highly susceptible to the virus. In a study published in Science of the […]