HydroSphereAI — Aquanty’s Artificial Intelligence Platform — has won the Water Canada New Tech Award for 2025.
Aquanty is proud to announce that our latest innovation — HydroSphereAI — has won the New Tech Award at the 2025 Water Canada Awards.
WATERLOO, Ontario — October 17, 2025 — Aquanty Inc. is proud to announce we have been awarded the New Tech award at the annual Water Canada Awards. This award recognizes groundbreaking new products at the forefront of technological innovation in the Canadian water sector.
“Safeguarding Canadian water resources is paramount to our mission. We are committed to providing access to essential tools that empower decision makers and ensure the security of water resources for all Canadians. By providing the resources needed to confront challenges presented by climate change, we can help Canadians face evolving environmental pressures and support sustainable water management for generations to come.”
Aquanty’s real-time machine learning (Artificial Intelligence)-based streamflow forecasting system (HydroSphereAI) is designed to support practitioner and community-based flood warning, risk mitigation and climate change adaptation. Climate change is altering seasonal streamflow patterns; snowmelt is occurring earlier, and extreme events are becoming more frequent. Traditional rainfall-runoff streamflow forecasting methods are difficult to scale and require considerable historical observation data to establish reliable relationships between rainfall and streamflow; however, in a changing climate these historical relationships are becoming less representative of future behavior. Under these circumstances HydroSphereAI provides superior performance, particularly in ungauged or data-poor watersheds, because it is trained on a wide range of different climate zones. Aquanty already operates this cutting-edge hydrologic forecasting system across Canada and is currently working to expand coverage across the globe.
HydroSphereAI represents the next generation of hydrological forecasting and places Canada at the forefront of this emerging AI-driven field. By pioneering ambitious initiatives and developing world-class technologies, Aquanty continues to lead the charge in advancing water resource management across Canada amidst the climate crisis.
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About Aquanty
Aquanty was founded in 2012 as a research spin-off from the University of Waterloo and has grown to become a world leader in water resources-focused predictive analytics, simulation, and forecasting. Our solutions span the globe, serving diverse industrial, government and NGO sectors. Aquanty’s scientists are recognized as leading international experts in integrated climate, groundwater & surface water modelling.
For more information about this machine-learning based streamflow forecasting technology contact the HydroSphereAI Product Manager or Aquanty’s Director of Research:
Dr. Andre Erler, HydroSphereAI Product Manager and Chief Climate Scientist / aerler@aquanty.com
Dr. Steve Frey, Director of Research, Aquanty Inc. / sfrey@aquanty.com
Click here to learn more about the Water Canada Awards and other 2025 finalists.
Interested in learning more?
Watch the recording of our recent webinar, "HydroSphereAI: Next-Generation Hydrological Forecasting & AI-Driven Insights for a Changing Climate", in this session we dive into how cutting-edge machine learning approaches are transforming streamflow prediction and hydrological forecasting across Canada.
Or review our latest case study evaluating HydroSphereAI performance during the spring freshet: “HydroSphereAI Case Study: Sauble River at Allenford — Spring Melt 2025“