Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal 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 design a tool for assessing the flood-resilience of development projects
Isabelle Thomas and her ARIACTION team have designed and tested an innovative tool for flood-resilient land-use planning.
An extrasolar world covered in water?
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary system located in the Draco constellation about 100 light-years from […]
Measuring the environmental impact of a hydroelectric dam at Inukjuak
The Innavik Hydro Project currently being built by the Pituvik Landholding Corporation in partnership with Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. will soon enable the Inuit community of Inukjuak to switch entirely to hydroelectric power. There will be a run-of-river power plant on the Innuksuac River. The village is currently supplied by diesel-generated electricity. With the hydro […]
Fighting climate change with deep-sea water
Marine biologists have long known the power of microbes to transform carbon released by surface phytoplankton—algae on the surface of the sea—into more stable molecules. But what happens when that carbon reaches deep parts of the ocean, thousands of meters down? According to new research at Université de Montréal, the answer could provide one more […]
A ‘bio-refinery’: using the chemistry of willow trees to treat Canada’s municipal wastewater
Every year in Canada, six trillion litres of municipal wastewater are partially treated and released into the environment, while another 150 billion litres of untreated sewage are discharged straight into pristine surface waters. Now researchers have found a way to stem that flow: by filtering the waste through the roots of willow trees. Experimenting with […]
Water quality: a matter of perspective
Biologists at Université de Montréal find that a common measure to assess the health of rivers can also help show the many ways their water can be used. There are so many ways to assess water quality: if you fish, your idea of “good” water is whether it supports trout, bass or walleye; if you […]