Comprehensive analysis, assessment and design of water supply infrastructure through the lens of the water-energy nexus

城市供水系统是健康城市的支柱；然而，这些体系如今正处于危机之中。它们既浪费又不可持续。在这个建议中，我们将重新设想如何设计、评估、监测、分析和重建水系统。这项建议的成果将是多方面的。它将导致我们在如何获取和传输关于城市供水系统的关键信息方面取得进展；并将使城市供水系统的能源使用和废物废物减少1.3倍。它将提供检测系统故障和故障的新方法，使能源和淡水利用率进一步提高1.6倍。一个新的概念——城市供水系统作为能源系统——将使加拿大能够实现可再生能源发电20%的宏伟目标。最后，我们阐述了一种新的范例，将水力和水质性能与经济投资联系在一起，包括可靠性和弹性的重要性，这将使我们能够为城市环境制定新的高效水系统。国家科学研究委员会的资金将完全用于培养高素质的人才。多伦多大学已经从世界各地招收了三名世界级的研究生，开始这些创新的研究。最终，该项目将带来创新——以及训练有素的创新者——提高能源效率，改善珍贵的城市环境的健康，这些环境是当代社会的核心。

Urban water systems are the backbone of healthy cities; yet these systems today are in crisis. They are both wasteful and unsustainable. In this proposal, we will re-envision how water systems are designed, evaluated, monitored, analyzed and re-built.The fruits of this proposal will be manifold. It will lead to advances in how we acquire and transmit critical information regarding the urban water system; and will enable a 1.3x reduction in energy use and waste waste in the urban water system. It will provide new methodologies for detecting faults and failures in the system, enabling a further 1.6x improvement in energy and freshwater utilization. A new concept - the urban water system as an energy system - will empower Canada to meet its ambitious target of 20% energy generation from renewable sources. Finally, our elaboration of a new paradigm that ties together hydraulic and water quality performance to economic investment, including the importance of reliability and resilience, will enable us to prescribe novel and efficient water systems for the urban environment.NSERC funding will be devoted entirely to the training of highly-qualified personnel. Already three world-class graduate students from around the globe are recruited to the University of Toronto to embark on these innovative studies. Ultimately, the project will lead to innovations - and highly-trained innovators - that enhance the energy-efficiency, and the health, of the precious urban environments that are the centerpieces of contemporary society.