Resilience-Oriented Watershed and Extreme Freshwater Events Management, Analysis, and Multi-Criteria Modelling

淡水对于加拿大各地的弹性经济发展、人类和生态系统健康以及社区可持续性至关重要，特别是在水资源短缺和地表水选择有限的草原省份农村地区。包括资源开采和提炼以及农业生产在内的经济部门很容易受到极端淡水事件（EFWE）的影响，例如洪水和干旱。根据不确定性、年内气候变化和全球变化事件，创建增强的方法来规划和预测EFWE，对于面向恢复力的流域管理至关重要。这个研究项目与我的团队的研究成果和USask的标志性优势相一致，重点关注流域管理（质量和数量）的优化工程解决方案，特别是在农村和农业地区。我的团队在流域水文学和水源保护，开发适当的技术解决方案以解决工业和农业水质影响，以及收集和实施社区对EFWE的反应，以开发更好的工程解决方案和基础设施方面具有专业知识。本研究的总体目标是促进科学和工程的理解和高影响实践的发展，以建立流域管理的弹性。通过这样做，我们可以减少对EFWE的脆弱性，并加强基于证据的政策、监管变革和工程标准。该研究项目的长期目标是开发可靠和强大的决策分析工具，并支持基于证据的流域生态环境评估政策。研究计划包括未来五年（2020-2025）可实现的几个短期目标：1。将EFWE预测纳入大草原工业和社区的高优先流域管理挑战识别和提供见解，以提高在流域规模的风险和脆弱的基础设施，行业和社区的弹性。评估、优化和实地测试反映不断变化的流域管理需求和农村和农业地区EFWE影响的模块化和分散式水处理方案；4.将累积需求和影响评估方法纳入战略流域管理和有关EFWE对草原上农村和农业地区恢复力的影响的分析。该研究项目得到了卓越的研究设施和HQP的支持，并位于由USask全球水安全研究所（CFREF和CERC支持）和全球水期货团队创建的高功能合作研究环境的背景下。通过这项创新和高影响力的研究，处于风险中的基础设施、行业和社区将拥有新的预测工具和新颖的工程解决方案，以解决EFWE和流域管理问题。

Freshwater is essential for resilient economic development, human and ecosystem health, and community sustainability across Canada, and particularly in rural areas of the Prairie provinces where water scarcity and limited access to surface water options are reality. Economic sectors including resource extraction and refinement, and agricultural production are vulnerable to extreme freshwater events (EFWE), such as floods and droughts. Creating enhanced methods to plan for and predict EFWE in light of uncertainty, intra-annual climate variation, and global change events is essential for resiliency-oriented watershed management. This program of research aligns with my team's research achievements and USask signature strengths focusing on optimized engineering solutions for watershed management (quality and quantity), particularly in rural and agricultural areas. My team has expertise in watershed scale hydrology and source water protection, development of appropriate technology solutions to address industrial and agricultural water quality impacts, and collection and implementation of community responses to EFWE to develop better engineered solutions and infrastructure. The overarching goal of this research is to contribute to the scientific and engineering understanding and development of high impact practices for building resilience into watershed management. By doing so, we can reduce vulnerability to EFWE and enhance evidence-based policies, regulatory change and engineering standards. The long-term objective of this program of research is to develop reliable and robust decision analysis tools and support for evidence-based policy for EFWEs at the watershed scale. The program of research includes several achievable short-term objectives for the next five years (2020-2025): 1.Incorporating EFWE projections into high priority watershed management challenges for Prairies industries and communities 2.Identifying and providing insights for enhanced resiliency of at-risk and vulnerable infrastructure, industries, and communities at the watershed scale 3.Evaluating, optimizing, and field-testing modular and decentralized water treatment options that reflect changing watershed management needs and EFWE impacts in rural and agricultural areas; 4.Incorporating cumulative needs and impacts assessments methods to strategic watershed management and analysis relating to EFWE effects on resiliency of rural and agricultural areas on the Prairies. The program of research is supported by both exceptional research facilities and HQP, and is situated within the context of an extremely high functioning collaborative research environment created by the Global Institute of Water Security (CFREF and CERC enabled) and Global Water Futures teams at USask. Through this innovative and high impact research, at-risk infrastructure, industries and communities will have new predictive tools and novel engineering solutions to address EFWE and watershed management.