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3 11, 2016

Developing Methodologies and Tools for Bottom-Up Participatory Technology Development Processes in Indigenous Communities

admin2018-07-25T15:12:36-04:00November 3rd, 2016|

As of April 2016, there are over 157 drinking water advisories in 111 First Nation communities in Canada. For decades, decision makers at the federal level focused on providing technical solutions through new treatment plant infrastructure. However, many now believe that technical solutions that do not meaningfully incorporate a community’s perspective and local knowledge will [...]

24 10, 2016

Development and Validation of a Model to Forecast Lead Levels in Municipal Drinking Water

admin2018-07-25T15:01:25-04:00October 24th, 2016|

To understand the physical and chemical mechanisms regulating lead dissolution in drinking water distribution systems, this project included a detailed analysis of solid lead corrosion scales harvested from lead pipes from communities with different water quality characteristics, dissolution experiments of pure lead species and lead corrosion scales, and continuous pipe loop dissolution experiments using pipes [...]

9 10, 2016

Human Well-being, Ecosystem Services and Watershed Management in the Credit River Valley

admin2020-06-15T17:52:32-04:00October 9th, 2016|

Human health and well-being are greatly impacted by the health and quality of services provided by local ecosystems. This project aimed to make this relationship more clear and to enrich peoples’ understanding of their impacts on nature and, in turn, nature’s impact on their well-being.

6 10, 2016

Accessibility, Quality and Safety of Liard First Nation’s Drinking Water Supply

admin2018-07-24T19:23:09-04:00October 6th, 2016|

This project collected information on Liard First Nation’s drinking water access, safety and sustainability in order to help community leaders make decisions about supply, management and policy. Using a community-based research method, researchers tested the quality of 40 private drinking water wells that are not regularly monitored; studied how the area’s groundwater and surface water [...]

5 10, 2016

Putting a Price on How Much Albertans Value the Reliability of their Drinking Water Supply

admin2020-06-15T17:54:58-04:00October 5th, 2016|

The impacts from increased frequency and severity of summer droughts and forest fires in regions like Alberta are becoming a growing concern, as they could lead to increased risks in drinking water system outages, and also have negative impacts on downstream water quality. This project provided an estimate of the monetary value that Albertans place [...]

14 09, 2016

Valuing Water Quality Changes Within a Water Quality Ladder Framework

admin2018-10-25T19:54:30-04:00September 14th, 2016|

This project looked at how to convert a proposal’s expected impacts on water quality into information about changes in economic values. Academic researchers in the fields of biology and economics were brought together with government staff to co-create new forms of knowledge. The goal was to develop a flexible, computer-based model that could be used [...]

25 07, 2016

Integrated Sorption Technologies for Recovery of Nitrogen and Phosphorous from Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor Permeates

admin2018-10-25T19:55:16-04:00July 25th, 2016|

Municipal utilities spend considerable time, energy and chemicals to remove phosphorous and nitrogen compounds like ammonia and ammonium from municipal wastewaters. Removing these nutrients is expensive and often not commercially feasible; however, even in low concentrations phosphorous and nitrogen can degrade water quality. This 2013-2015 project created an effluent of specific, elevated, concentrated feedstock amenable [...]

22 06, 2016

Treatment of Vegetable Wash-Water to Permit Water Recycling

admin2018-07-18T20:18:18-04:00June 22nd, 2016|

The processing of fruit and vegetables requires high volumes of potable water and standards for wastewater being released into the municipal system have become more stringent. Little is known about the physical and chemical characteristics of wastewater derived from different processing operations, and subsequently which technologies are most effective for each crop type.

27 04, 2016

Managing Uncertainty in the Provision of Safe Drinking Water

admin2018-10-30T13:13:05-04:00April 27th, 2016|

This project deals with clarifying a common framework and approach to management options, one that can be used by providers and regulators to approach management choices and underpin their commitment to the central task of maintaining a vigilant focus on the following: How best can drinking water providers and their regulators address risk and uncertainty [...]

21 04, 2016

Assessing Pathogens in a Drinking Water Source: Investigations in the Grand River Watershed

admin2020-10-09T17:33:36-04:00April 21st, 2016|

Source water characterization is an important component in the multi-barrier protection of drinking water, and accurate data on pathogens is critical for treatment design, monitoring and risk assessment. This study determined pathogen loadings from the Grand River watershed and measured pathogen occurrence and concentrations in river water.

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