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

在水处理操作中监测和保护水源水以及 由分配系统提供的水需要更多关于饮用水质量的信息。 保持安全的微生物水而不损害化学水质是最大的问题之一 饮用水行业面临的挑战。考虑到日益增长的 水资源的脆弱性和污染，在高污染源地区运营处理厂的困难， 水质变化的背景下，和分配网络的复杂性。该联盟补助金是对工业研究主席（IRC-M）的补充。J. Rodriguez）最近续签了未来五年的合同。联盟赠款将支持开发从水源到水龙头的饮用水质量评估和监测所需的方法和工具，研究项目将满足合作伙伴未来五年的具体研发需求。它提出了一个多学科的研究计划，有三个主题：1）替代水质评估的发展; 2）源跟踪和微生物水质的新兴方法;和3）基础设施和水力对饮用水质量的影响。该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、城市水水力学和水质建模方面的专业知识。该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）的培训，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运营任务中使用。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。预计该联盟提案的成果将加强加拿大在开发饮用水质量决策工具方面的全球地位。

More stringent regulations for monitoring and protecting source water in water treatment operations and for water 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 biggest challenges facing the drinking water industry. This challenge is all the more important given the increasing vulnerability and contamination of water sources, the difficulty of operating treatment plants in high source water 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.