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领先的，基于基础的，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助合作伙伴的短期到中期需求，包括市政当局，参与水处理和供水的顾问和行业。在主席任期的五年内（2018-2022年）进行的研究将应对挑战，包括急剧变化的水源水质、更严格的法规以及对更可持续工艺的渴望，同时确保对公共健康的有力保护。三大研究主题包括：A -通过强大的系统成功地管理原水质量变化，该系统将开发工具，帮助公用事业计划应对极端天气事件，泄漏情况，季节性发生的蓝藻水华，以及微塑料等污染物。B -绿色和创新的处理工艺，该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，以及用于污染物（如蓝藻毒素）的新型可重复使用的复合吸附剂。C-了解腐蚀，重点是铅，该项目将研究腐蚀控制措施，以最大限度地减少现有铅管和含铅管道系统组件中的铅释放，

The NSERC Chair in Water Treatment at the University of Waterloo functions as a centre of expertise, with amission to conduct leading edge, fundamentally based, yet practically oriented research on critical issuesrelated 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 fiveyear period (2018-2022) of the Chair term will address challenges including drastically changing source waterqualities, more stringent regulations and the desire for more sustainable processes all the while ensuring robustprotection of public health. The three major research themes include:A - Successfully Managing Raw Water Quality Changes through Robust Systems, which will develop tools tohelp utilities plan for extreme weather events, spill scenarios, seasonally occurring cyanotoxins blooms, andemerging 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 tominimize lead release from existing lead pipes and lead-bearing plumbing system components, and also