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，特别是在大草原省份的农村地区，那里水资源短缺，地表水选择有限。包括资源开采和提炼在内的经济部门以及农业生产易受洪水和干旱等极端淡水事件的影响。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，对于以流域管理为导向的流域管理至关重要。这项研究计划与我的团队的研究成果和USask的签名优势相一致，专注于流域管理（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。我的团队在流域尺度水文学和水源保护、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。这项研究的总体目标是促进科学和工程的理解和发展的高影响力的做法，建立到流域管理的恢复力。通过这样做，我们可以减少对EFWE的脆弱性，并加强循证政策，监管改革和工程标准。 该研究计划的长期目标是开发可靠和强大的决策分析工具，并支持流域尺度的EFWE循证政策。研究计划包括未来五年内几个可实现的短期目标（2020-2025年）：1.将EFWE预测纳入大草原工业和社区的高优先级流域管理挑战2.确定并提供见解，以提高流域范围内风险和脆弱基础设施、工业和社区的复原力3.评估、优化、实地测试模块化和分散式水处理方案，反映不断变化的流域管理需求和EFWE在农村和农业地区的影响; 4.将累积需求和影响评估方法推广到战略流域管理和分析EFWE对草原农村和农业地区复原力的影响。该研究计划得到了卓越的研究设施和HQP的支持，并位于由全球水安全研究所（CFREF和CERC启用）和USask的全球水期货团队创建的极高功能的协作研究环境中。通过这项创新和高影响力的研究，风险基础设施，行业和社区将拥有新的预测工具和新的工程解决方案，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.