Genomic assays for evaluating the efficacy of Biocards used in the waste water treatment.

加拿大政府已经加大了对废水向环境排放的监管力度，以避免生态系统的富营养化。然而，随着新规定的出台，许多市政当局需要进行实质性的升级。传统的废水处理技术已经变得成本高昂。因此，毕晓普水务技术公司(BWT)致力于实施一种生态友好且具有成本效益的技术来处理加拿大的废水(市政和工业废水)，并去除河流和湖泊中的营养物质负荷。BWT技术是基于“BioCord”(开发微生物生物膜的人工支持材料)。要将这种技术推向市场，需要BioCord在不同的环境条件下稳定运行。因此，为了改进和优化这项处理技术，BWT需要了解和验证不同运行环境和废水中微生物组成的差异；要有效地做到这一点，需要对生物膜进行详细的遗传研究，这将使研究人员能够确定用于优化的理想微生物种类的比例。这项研究产生的结果将有助于更好地理解这种新型的城市垃圾处理，并为可持续管理实践提供潜在的处理解决方案，以实现水资源的永续保护。

Canadian government has increased the focus on regulating discharge of waste water to the environment to avoid the eutrophication of the ecosystem. However with the new regulations many municipalities require substantial upgrades. Traditional waste water treatment technologies have become cost prohibitive. So Bishop Water Technologies (BWT) working on implementing an ecofriendly and cost-effective technology for treating Canadian waste water (municipal and industrial) and removal of nutrient loading in rivers and lakes. BWT technology is based on the "BioCord" (artificial support material for development of microbial biofilm). To market such technology requires stable operation of BioCord in different environmental conditions. Hence to improve and optimize this treatment technology BWT need to understand and validate the disparities in the microbial compositions under different operating environments and waste streams; To do this effectively will require a detailed genetic study of the biofilms which will allow the researchers to identify the proportion of ideal microbial species for optimization. The outcomes generated by this research will contribute to an improved understanding of this novel municipal waste treatment and provide potential treatment solutions for sustainable management practice for protection water resource into perpetuity.