Atlantic Canada 2022-2023
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THE WATER ISSUES
WE TACKLED IN THIS CHALLENGE
SALT WATER
INTRUSIONS
How can we provide well water users cost-effective solutions for salt water intrusion?
Water Issue Leaders
Logan Horrocks, GIS Specialist and Charlynne Robertson, Senior Manager - Clean Coasts at Clean Foundation
AQUATIC
INVASIVE SPECIES
How can we improve the control and management of aquatic invasive species?
Water Issue Leaders
Kaylee MacLeod, Senior Field Technician - Species at Risk and Biodiversity at Coastal Action and Erin Francheville, MSc App Sci (2024) at SMU
AUTOMATED WATER QUALITY MONITORING
How can we provide automated and cost-effective solutions to monitor water quality?
Water Issue Leaders
Curtis Forbes, Project Biologist and Kalen Mawer, Aquatic Science Program Manager at Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc.
STORMWATER
AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
How can we improve green infrastructure maintenance and care practices to ensure long term stormwater management?
Water Issue Leaders
Jamylynn McDonald, Climate Change Coordinator at ACAP Saint John
INNOVATIONS
FOR WATER ALTERATION PROJECTS
How can we innovate to improve the alteration projects occurring in our lakes and rivers to mitigate environmental impacts?
Water Issue Leaders
Annamarie Burgess, Senior Water Resources Engineer, Water Resources Management Unit,
at Nova Scotia Department of Environment & Climate Change
WATER ISSUES SUMMARY REPORT
Additional information, resources and data about the water issues.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FINALISTS
TECHSTAR DIGITAL LABS
The GREENHUT solution for the prevention of stormwater runoff is an innovative, do-it-yourself, intensive roofing solution for households provided with a local form of vegetation. It is eco-friendly, powered by green cement layering and can be customized in various sizes.
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first place
SÙ
SÙ manufactures reusable & biodegradable drinking straws from invasive reed. Their solution will help solve the problem of single-use plastics related to drinking straws. It will also help preserve the Canadian wetlands by controlling the propagation of invasive reeds.
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second place
SEACYCLE
Seacycle is a water filtration system designed to remove plastic waste ranging from water bottles, to microplastics by use of a gravity filter, while also generating automated water quality reports.
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third
place
KAMINO
KAMNIO provides STEM-The-Tide, a low-cost technology solution for private property owners to install and maintain green infrastructure aligned to municipal stormwater reconstruction projects. This solution uses real-time data from an Internet of Things mesh network that works offline to collect and monitor the performance of Low Impact Development.
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Fourth Place
SENSE H2O
SenseH2O is a cloud-based platform that aims to deliver automated real-time water quality data as a service to watershed organizations and open databases using SenseH2O Water monitoring Station. The Cloud-based platform will allow for real-time monitoring and analysis of water quality data using web and mobile applications.
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Fifth
Place
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