Local startup aims to provide world with clean water
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Forward Water’s pilot plant in Sarnia allows industrial clients to see the process in action.
Photo courtesy, Grafiks Marketing and Communications and Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park.
Phil Egan
A small Canadian company working out of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park is taking on one of this century’s greatest challenges abundant access to clean water for people, farms and industry.
Forward Water Technologies has developed a proprietary technology that uses ‘forward osmosis’ to convert dirty wastewater into clean water.
The technology was born at an Ontario university lab and has now reached the demonstration stage in a pilot plant at the Sarnia facility.
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A long-term agreement with the developer of the Bayside Centre property in downtown Sarnia says Lambton County can buy the office space it’s leasing there for $23.5 million, 10 years into the deal.
A Lambton County council committee recently endorsed a plan that could see $14 million eventually set aside in reserves to help pay for the purchase.
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“I think the feeling is it’s better to own than it is to lease,” and “it’s better to start saving,” Warden Kevin Marriott said.
A long-term agreement with the developer of the Bayside Centre property in downtown Sarnia says Lambton County can buy the office space it’s leasing there for…