NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment - Addressing Emerging Challenges in Drinking Water Treatment and Supply

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The NSERC Chair in Water Treatment at the University of Waterloo functions as a centre of expertise, with a**mission to conduct leading edge, fundamentally based, yet practically oriented research on critical issues**related to water treatment and quality, and to facilitate interactions between Canadian industry and universities.**Our research addresses the short- to medium-term needs of our funding partners, which include municipalities,**consultants and industry involved in the treatment and provision of water. Research conducted over the five**year period (2018-2022) of the Chair term will address challenges including drastically changing source water**qualities, more stringent regulations and the desire for more sustainable processes all the while ensuring robust**protection of public health. The three major research themes include:**A - Successfully Managing Raw Water Quality Changes through Robust Systems, which will develop tools to**help utilities plan for extreme weather events, spill scenarios, seasonally occurring cyanotoxins blooms, and**emerging contaminants such as microplastics.**B - Green and Innovative Treatment Processes, which will study biofiltration for cyanotoxin removal,**sustainable approaches to control groundwater hardness and manganese using newer technologies, and novel,**reusable composite adsorbents for contaminants such as cyanotoxins.**C - Understanding Corrosion with a Focus on Lead, which will investigate corrosion control measures to**minimize lead release from existing lead pipes and lead-bearing plumbing system components, and also