Innovation Anthology #609:

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Next time you flush  the toilet, ask yourself if its necessary  to use treated, potable water for the job.

 

Dr. Nicholas Ashbolt is researching ways to recover and recycle our personal sewage.  And that’s one way to conserve water resources. 

 

Dr. Ashbolt holds the new Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Translational Chair in Water. 

 

 

DR NICHOLAS ASHBOLT:  So what we can pioneer here are alternatives and furthermore, we can actually make money from this because we treat these no longer as waste but as resources.  So the nutrients go back to agriculture at a high value, the energy we can recover from our current sewers as a good example, represent close to  7 percent of the total electricity production in this country.  And at the moment we’re using up electricity just to get rid of it.  So there are enormous economies to be made here both in innovation and technology and through resource recovery, making it far more economic for us to better manage our resources. 

 

Some of Dr. Ashbolt’s research is focused on how to reduce the risk of waterborne pathogens to enable the introduction of grey water recycling.

 

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY

I’M CHERYL CROUCHER

 

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

 

 

Program Date: 2014-05-06