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DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, November 23th 2022 | Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30pm| 
 Macdonald Engineering Building RM: 267 \n\n*The session will also be acces
 sible via zoom\n\nRegister: https://mcgill.ca/x/3W9\n\nDrinking water is o
 ne of society's most critical needs and delivery of safe drinking water is
  a global strategic priority. In 2014\, the Intergovernmental panel on Cli
 mate Change (IPCC) cited for Water research to conclude that climate chang
 e threatens water security not only through source water availability\, bu
 t also quality. Climate change-exacerbated landscape disturbances such as 
 wildfires\, extreme precipitation\, and pest infestation can create condit
 ions that lead to source water quality deterioration and/or increased vari
 ability\, thereby threatening treatability and potentially leading to drin
 king water service disruptions or even outages. In 2022\, IPCC concluded t
 hat compound disturbances (e.g.\, heavy precipitation after wildfire) can 
 pose even greater threats to water security. Traditional approaches to tre
 atment process design have not historically reflected these aspects of hyd
 roclimatic variability. Recent advances in treatability assessment are int
 egral to ensuring that treatment processes are resilient to these increasi
 ngly variable conditions and able to provide sufficient quantities of safe
  potable water.\n\nGiven these challenges\, international scientific commu
 nity consensus indicates that sole reliance on in-plant drinking water tre
 atment is insufficient for managing these threats and points to the need f
 or more targeted source water protection. Source water protection through 
 watershed management is thus increasingly advocated\, however\, guidance f
 or the design and deployment of such initiatives is lacking. In Canada—and
  much of the world—forested landscapes are critical water-bearing areas. I
 n these regions\, forest management—and specifically harvesting—is increas
 ingly promoted to mitigate climate-exacerbated threats to source water qua
 lity and treatability. However\, it also has the potential to have undesir
 able impacts on water.\n\nSeeking to safeguard the provision of adequate a
 mounts of safe drinking water by concurrently advancing treatability asses
 sment and contemporary source water protection strategies that are focused
  on treatability (thereby integrating grey and green infrastructure)\, the
  pan-Canadian and internationally-partnered forWater Network was formed to
  develop innovative solutions for climate change adaptation to ensure drin
 king water security in Canada. This presentation will summarize the past f
 ive years of forWater research and highlight key pan-Canadian insights reg
 arding forest harvesting effects on source water quality and treatability\
 , strategies for improved integrated watershed management\, key water qual
 ity metrics for linking source water disturbance impacts to treatment chal
 lenges and strategies for assessing treatability and managing risks. These
  initiatives recently resulted in a global first: the inclusion of two new
  voluntary targets in a recent Canadian Forest Management Plan—the details
  of this innovation and opportunities to advance upon it will also be disc
 ussed.\n\n\nMonica Emelko is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and 
 Canada Research Chair in Water Science\, Technology & Policy at the Univer
 sity of Waterloo\, where she also serves as the Director of the Water Scie
 nce\, Technology & Policy Group. In addition\, Monica is the Associate Dir
 ector of Climate Risk\, Resilience\, and Adaptation at the Waterloo Climat
 e Institute. Monica’s research is focused on drinking water supply and tre
 atment\, and risk analysis for public health protection.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Zoom is available \, Macdonald Engineering Building\, CA\, QC\, Mo
 ntreal\, H3A 0C3\, 817 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Safeguarding the Provision of Drinking Water in a Changing Climate
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/brace/channels/event/safeguarding-provision-drink
 ing-water-changing-climate-343356
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