{"id":70099,"date":"2021-11-19T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=70099"},"modified":"2021-11-22T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:09:32","slug":"companys-water-treatment-technology-will-combat-water-issues-in-indigenous-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/companys-water-treatment-technology-will-combat-water-issues-in-indigenous-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Company&#8217;s water treatment technology hopes to combat water issues in Indigenous communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Many First Nations and remote communities across Canada do not have access to safe, clean water.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/steelrivergroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steel River Group\u2019s<\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0new entity,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/watercarecompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Care Company<\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">, has received funding to support a water treatment pilot project in Stoney Nakoda First Nation in southern Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Alberta Innovates committed $328,000 to Water Care Company to develop a pre-commercial prototype of its clarification technology at the Morley Wastewater Treatment Plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The funds will help Water Care Company continue to develop the water treatment technology, with the ultimate goal of bringing it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sac-isc.gc.ca\/eng\/1506514143353\/1533317130660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communities across Canada facing water problems.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dylan Smart is the vice president of Water Care Company located in Calgary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIt\u2019s been way too long. Like we still have\u2026I don\u2019t have the numbers in front of me, but I believe it\u2019s almost 50 nations across Canada that are still on boil water advisories. How is this possible in 2021 in this country?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">He says Water Care Company is ready to make a difference and start changing this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAt the end of the day, we want to help people,\" he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The technology is a lower cost solution, he said, and can be used as a stand-alone system or as an add-on to current systems in use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found on the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Listen to the full audio report below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many First Nations and remote communities across Canada do not have access to safe, clean water.\u00a0Steel River Group\u2019s\u00a0new entity,\u00a0Water Care Company, has received funding to support a water treatment pilot project in Stoney Nakoda First Nation in southern Alberta. Alberta Innovates committed $328,000 to Water Care Company to develop a pre-commercial prototype of its clarification&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":70104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,222],"tags":[2150,980,10818,10819,10820,10817],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70099"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=70099"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=70099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}