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

滑铁卢大学的NSERC水处理主席是一个专业中心，其 ** 使命是对与水处理和质量相关的关键问题 ** 进行前沿的、基于根本的、但以实践为导向的研究，并促进加拿大工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短期到中期需求，其中包括市政当局，** 顾问和参与水处理和供应的行业。在主席任期的五年（2018-2022年）内进行的研究将应对挑战，包括急剧变化的水源 ** 质量、更严格的法规以及对更可持续工艺的渴望，同时确保对公共卫生的强有力 ** 保护。三大研究主题包括：**A -通过强大的系统成功管理原水质量变化，该系统将开发工具，** 帮助公用事业计划极端天气事件，泄漏情景，季节性发生的蓝藻水华，以及 ** 新兴污染物，如微塑料。B -绿色和创新处理工艺，将研究去除蓝藻毒素的生物过滤，** 使用新技术控制地下水硬度和锰的可持续方法，以及用于蓝藻毒素等污染物的新型 ** 可重复使用的复合吸附剂。C -了解腐蚀，重点关注铅，将调查腐蚀控制措施，以 ** 最大限度地减少现有铅管道和含铅管道系统组件的铅释放，

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