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

滑铁卢大学的NSERC水处理主席作为一个专业知识中心，其使命是在与水处理和质量相关的关键问题上开展领先的、基于基础的、面向实践的研究，并促进加拿大工业界和大学之间的互动。我们的研究解决了我们的资助伙伴的短期到中期需求，这些合作伙伴包括市政当局、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，包括急剧变化的水源水质、更严格的法规和对更可持续进程的渴望，同时确保对公众健康的有力保护。三个主要研究主题包括：A -通过强大的系统成功管理原水质量变化，这将开发工具来帮助公用事业公司制定极端天气事件，泄漏情景，季节性发生的蓝藻毒素大量繁殖以及微塑料等新出现的污染物的计划。B -绿色和创新处理工艺，将研究去除氰藻毒素的生物过滤，使用新技术控制地下水硬度和锰的可持续方法，以及新型可重复使用的复合吸附剂，如氰藻毒素。c -了解腐蚀，关注铅，将研究腐蚀控制措施，最大限度地减少现有铅管道和含铅管道系统部件的铅释放

The NSERC Chair in Water Treatment at the University of Waterloo functions as a centre of expertise, with amission to conduct leading edge, fundamentally based, yet practically oriented research on critical issuesrelated 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 fiveyear period (2018-2022) of the Chair term will address challenges including drastically changing source waterqualities, more stringent regulations and the desire for more sustainable processes all the while ensuring robustprotection of public health. The three major research themes include:A - Successfully Managing Raw Water Quality Changes through Robust Systems, which will develop tools tohelp utilities plan for extreme weather events, spill scenarios, seasonally occurring cyanotoxins blooms, andemerging 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 tominimize lead release from existing lead pipes and lead-bearing plumbing system components, and also