The Walkerton Clean Water Centre, an Ontario crown agency, was established in October 2004 to address critical gaps identified by the O’Connor Commission as a result of the tragedy in the Town of Walkerton.

An opportunity exists to develop a distance education enterprise within the newly emerging WCWC to change the manner in which drinking water operator training is delivered in Ontario. With a focus on developing partnerships and sharing ideas with agencies with previous distance education experience, there is the opportunity to make distance education the norm and not the exception in the drinking water industry.