The water crossroads unveiled its mobile water treatment factory on Wednesday in Quebec.
After the launch of the project last April, the crossroads of water takes a new step with the inauguration of its technological showcase.
The mobile factory unveiled in the spring is now connected to the wastewater treatment station on the Baie-de-Beauport path.
Accessible this summer, this showcase is aimed at the general public as well as to professionals.
Employees want to raise awareness, inspire and mobilize around the crucial water issues.
Challenges
According to them, this mobile laboratory offers a response to urgent water challenges related to water and the growing rarity of the resource.
It will serve as a demonstrator and a field of analysis for several other initiatives related to industrial, scientific and municipal circles.
The National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) will conduct scientific research and activities this summer around the water theme.
Present at the inauguration Wednesday evening, Mayor Bruno Marchand said that there was a way of developing technologies here to solve planetary problems. An idea of cleaning the streets with non -potable water is not so simple in practice for municipal employees for example.
“We can continue to close our eyes. If we want to change, it will take a lot of will and genius. And we have a lot. We must find all the possible solutions to innovate, ”he said before the new federal deputy for Beauport-Limoilou, Steeve Lavoie.
“The mobile water treatment and recycling plant is the opportunity to demonstrate that our resource is precious and that it is high time to develop more resilience in the face of our real drinking water needs,” also added Frédéric Dugé, president and chief executive officer of H2O Innovation.
Photo Jean-François Racine / Le Journal de Québec
Expertise
Their project, mentioned in 2023, was born with the launch of the crossroads, which wants to make Quebec a world leader in the field.
A little less than two years ago, Quebec City had funded by a subsidy of $ 1 million the feasibility study of this water crossroads.
In an ambitious way, the idea is to develop an unprecedented pole of expertise in Quebec.
Photo Jean-François Racine / Le Journal de Québec