University of Guelph

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University of Guelph 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.

Canadian researchers test wastewater for new COVID-19 variants

A University of Guelph research team monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 is now using the technology to search for variants. Dr. Lawrence Goodridge and a team of U of G researchers including Drs. Ed McBean, School of Engineering; Heather Murphy, Department of Pathobiology; and Marc Habash, School of Environmental Sciences, have been sampling wastewater in several municipalities […]

University of Guelph · 12 Apr 2021

29 Oct 2020

Canada funds $6.5-million project to track outbreaks using wastewater

Faster detection of food-borne illness outbreaks by combining wastewater monitoring and social media technologies is the goal of a new $6.5-million project led by University of Guelph food scientist Lawrence Goodridge. Funded by Genome Canada through Ontario Genomics, the new monitoring projects will also track the COVID-19-causing virus in wastewater as an early warning system […]