Development of methods and tools for the integrated management of drinking water quality

在水处理作业中监测和保护水源水以及供水系统供水的更严格的法规要求提供更多关于饮用水质量的信息。在不影响化学水质的情况下保持安全的微生物水是饮用水行业面临的最大挑战之一。鉴于水源的脆弱性和污染日益增加，在水源水质变化较大的情况下运行处理厂的难度，以及分配网络的复杂性，这一挑战变得更加重要。该联盟补助金是对工业研究教席(IRC-M)的补充。罗德里格斯)最近续签了接下来的五年。联盟的赠款将支持开发从源头到自来水的饮用水质量评估和监测所需的方法和工具。这些研究项目回应了合作伙伴在未来五年的具体研究和开发需求。它提出了一个有三个主题的多学科研究计划：1)水质评估替代品的开发；2)微生物水质的来源追踪和新兴方法；以及3)基础设施和水力学对饮用水质量的影响。这项研究需要团队成员在水质监测和评估、水处理过程、化学和微生物水质、城市水力学和水质建模方面的专业知识。这一联盟伙伴关系旨在通过硕士和博士论文促进高素质人才(HQP)的培养，并为博士后和本科生提供机会。这些结果旨在供我们的合作伙伴在规划和日常业务任务中使用。惠益还包括在水质评估和监测方面的财政投资取得更好的成本/效益结果。预计这一联盟提案的结果将加强加拿大在世界各地发展饮用水质量决策工具方面的地位。

More stringent regulations for monitoring and protecting source water in water treatment operations and forwater delivered by distribution systems create a need for more information about drinking water quality.Maintaining safe microbiological water without compromising the chemical water quality is one of the biggestchallenges facing the drinking water industry. This challenge is all the more important given the increasingvulnerability and contamination of water sources, the difficulty of operating treatment plants in high sourcewater quality variability contexts, and the complexity of distribution networks. This Alliance Grant is complementary to the Industrial Research Chair (IRC-M. J. Rodriguez) recently renewed for the next five years. The Alliance grant will support the development of methods and tools needed for the assessment and monitoring of drinking water quality from source to tap.The research projects respond to the specific research and development needs of partners over the next five years. It presents a multidisciplinary research program with three themes: 1) Development of surrogates for water quality assessment; 2) Source tracking and emerging methods for microbiological water quality; and 3) Impacts of infrastructure and hydraulics on drinking water quality. The research requires the expertise of team members in water quality monitoring and assessment, water treatment processes, chemical and microbiological water quality, urban water hydraulics and water quality modelling. This Alliance partnership is designed to promote the training of highly-qualified personnel (HQP) through master's and doctoral theses, and also provides opportunities for postdoctoral and undergraduate students. The results are intended for use by our partners during planning and routine operational tasks. Benefits also include better cost/benefit outcomes of financial investments in assessment and monitoring of water quality. It is expected that outcomes of this Alliance proposal will strengthen Canada's position worldwide in the development of decision-making tools for drinking water quality.