Strategic watershed cumulative effects management and treatment of rural and agricultural water

在洪水泛滥和经济增长的背景下，整个大草原对水资源的需求日益增加，需要创新研究，以支持优化水的质量和数量的获取和分配。 这项研究促进了以科学为基础的水资源管理战略方法-质量和数量-在加拿大大草原的农村和农业地区。拟议的研究计划调查水的可用性，分配和处理需求，农村和农业用水的压力，以及在加拿大大草原水资源的竞争。 该研究的重点是确定，评估和实地测试的方法，流域管理和适当的水处理设计的各种应用，重点是农村和农业社区。这些将包括分析和设想，例如： 1.纳入环境变化要素，重点关注干旱和洪水等极端气候，这些气候通常与大草原的水管理和水处理挑战有关， 2.在流域管理和水处理的背景下，评估影响加拿大大草原水质和水量的日益增长的经济和土地使用压力，包括但不限于钾盐溶液开采、集约农业和工业发展（特别是石油和天然气，包括酸性气体）， 3.制定战略，汇编和减轻这些变化和发展对水资源管理的累积影响，包括多用途水管理计划和水源水监测、处理和分配矩阵， 4.在特定的水质挑战和营养物质，农药，金属和病原菌的命运和运输的设计背景下，优化农村和农业社区的水处理要求;极端气候;竞争性水需求;和经济现实（没有规模经济）。为了支持增强经济和社区的复原力，改进以科学为基础的决策系统，证明农业流域水资源管理和水处理需求的经济，环境和人类价值至关重要。 将通过加强科学数据和水资源管理技巧和技术的工程应用，查明、减轻和管理风险。通过实验室和实地实验，综合成果、知识、技术，并通过评估同时和累积影响来整体解决问题，以及加强多用途水资源管理工具，可以减轻依赖水资源消费的经济增长所带来的风险。

Increasing demands on water resources across the Prairies in the context of flooding and economic growth demand innovative research to support optimized access to and allocation of quality and quantity of water. This research promotes science-­based strategic approaches for water resources management – quality and quantity – in rural and agricultural regions of the Canadian Prairies. The proposed program of research investigates water availability, allocation and treatment needs, rural and agricultural pressures on water consumption, and competition for water resources in the Canadian Prairies. The research focuses on the identification, evaluation, and field testing of approaches for watershed management and appropriate water treatment designs for a variety of applications, focusing on rural and agricultural communities. These will include analyses and scenarios such as: 1. incorporating elements of environmental change, focusing on climate extremes such as drought and flood, that are most commonly associated with water management and treatment challenges on the Prairies, 2. within the context of watershed management and water treatment, evaluating the increasing economic and landuse pressures that affect water quality and quantity in the Canadian Prairies, including but not limited to potash solution mining, intensive agriculture, and industrial development (particularly in oil and gas, including sour gas), 3. creating strategies for compiling and mitigating the cumulative impacts on water resources management of these changes and developments, including multi-use water management plans and source water monitoring, treatment, and allocation matrices, and 4. optimizing water treatment requirements for rural and agricultural communities in a design context for specific water quality challenges and fate and transport of nutrients, pesticides, metals, and pathogenic bacteria; climate extremes; competing water demand; and economic realities (no economy of scale).Challenges related to water quality and quantity at both the watershed, rural and agricultural community scale are addressed. To support enhanced economic and community resiliency, improved scientifically-based decision-making systems that demonstrate the economic, environmental, and human value of water resources management and water treatment needs in agricultural watersheds are vital. Risks will be identified, mitigated and managed through enhanced scientific data and engineering applications of water resource management techniques and technologies. Through laboratory and field experiments, integrating results, knowledge, techniques, and holistic problem solving through assessments of concurrent and cumulative impacts, and enhancing multi-use water resource management tools, the risks associated with economic growth dependent upon water resource consumption can be mitigated.