ACWA Photo Captions
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Caption: Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) is a partnership between the University of
Calgary and The City of Calgary. ACWA's main goal is to develop wastewater treatment technologies that
will remove existing and emerging contaminants to improve ecosystem and human health.
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Caption: ACWA features 3.6 km of naturalized, experimental streams replicate real-life water situations
and enable research that cannot currently be performed anywhere else.
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Caption: The 12 streams are 350 m each, and are fully connected to the city plant, allowing researchers
to study live effluent in real time and perform controlled, repeatable experiments upstream, in-plant,
and downstream simultaneously.
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Caption: Volunteer shown “dressing the streams” at the Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets
(ACWA) research facility at the City of Calgary’s Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Centre.
Sampling streams
Caption: With ACWA’s large scale, natural environment test streams and the supporting Microbiology,
Aquatic and Stable Isotope laboratories on the University of Calgary campus, researchers can quantify
contaminant residues, identify and culture cells, determine water-borne pathogens and examine gene
expression in model organisms to ensure clean, safe drinking water.
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Caption: By realistically replicating environmental situations within a full-scale municipal wastewater
treatment plant – ACWA allows scientists and municipal water providers to answer remediation
questions that nobody else can.
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Caption: Andrew Stopford, ACWA Pine Creek Lab Manager, Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets,
University of Calgary -- Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) is a partnership between the
University of Calgary and The City of Calgary. ACWA's main goal is to develop wastewater treatment
technologies that will remove existing and emerging contaminants to improve ecosystem and human
health.
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Caption: Tao Dong, Professor, Veterinary Medicine -- Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) is
a partnership between the University of Calgary and The City of Calgary. ACWA's main goal is to develop
wastewater treatment technologies that will remove existing and emerging contaminants to improve
ecosystem and human health.
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Caption: In photo: Bacteria found in water. -- Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) is a
partnership between the University of Calgary and The City of Calgary. ACWA's main goal is to develop
wastewater treatment technologies that will remove existing and emerging contaminants to improve
ecosystem and human health.
ACWA Photo Captions