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

滑铁卢大学的NSERC水处理教席是一个专业中心，其**使命是对与水处理和水质有关的关键问题进行前沿、基础和实用的研究**，并促进加拿大行业和大学之间的互动。**我们的研究解决了我们的资金合作伙伴的中短期需求，包括市政当局、**顾问和参与水处理和供水的行业。在主席任期的五年期间(2018-2022年)进行的研究将应对各种挑战，包括水源水质的急剧变化、更严格的监管以及对更可持续进程的渴望，同时确保对公共卫生的有力**保护。三个主要研究主题包括：**A-通过强健系统成功管理原水水质变化，该项目将开发工具来**帮助公用事业公司为极端天气事件、泄漏情况、季节性发生的氰毒素水华和**新出现的污染物(如微塑料)进行规划。**B-绿色和创新的处理工艺，将研究去除氰化物的生物过滤，**使用新技术控制地下水硬度和锰的可持续方法，以及新颖的、**可重复使用的复合吸附剂，如氰毒素。**C-了解腐蚀，重点是铅，它将研究腐蚀控制措施，以**将现有铅管和含铅管道系统组件的铅释放降至最低，还

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