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  • Home
  • About
    • Our Team
    • Partners
    • Contact
  • Research
    • Watershed Science
    • Downstream Effects
    • Drinking Water Treatability
    • Resource Economics
  • Publications
    • List of Publications
    • Research Report
    • Research Snapshots
    • Resources
  • Capacity Building
    • Young Professionals
    • Knowledge Mobilization
    • Opportunities
  • News
    • Events
    • 2022 AGM Highlights
    • 2022 AGM Posters

DRINKING WATER TREATABILITY

Theme 3: Drinking Water Treatability

The Problem
Source water protection (SWP) is an important part of ensuring the water we drink is suitable and economically-viable to treat, but the rise of natural disturbances and connected impacts on our drinking water sources creates new problems and complications for the treatability of our drinking water.
The Approach
​​forWater is working on treatability issues by creating new knowledge on the effects of disturbance-associated water quality and its implications for engineering infrastructure needs, operations, and distribution. This includes working to establish a more nuanced understanding of public health risks from chemical and microbial concerns in source water and distribution systems.
The Impact
From larger municipalities to Indigenous and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, forWater is working with partners to apply knowledge to ensure the treatability and safety of our drinking water from the source to the tap.

Researchers
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Monica Emelko,
​Theme Leader

Civil and Environmental Engineering
​University of Waterloo
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Sarah Dickson-Anderson
Civil Engineering
McMaster University
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​Kirsten Müller
Biology
University of Waterloo
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Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Art & Science
University of Saskatchewan
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Jozef Nissimov
Biology
University of Waterloo

Field Research

Two students taking water samples from the boat
A researcher in the lab running chemical analysis
Algae on rocks in the river
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A student with all her sampling equipment on a dock
A student on a boat in a lake
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