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The NSERC Chair group attended the 2022 Ontario’s Water Conference & Trade Show, which was organized by OWWA and was held from May 2^nd to May 4^th in Niagara Falls. Chair members delivered five oral presentations and two poster presentations at this conference in different sessions, ranging from climate change, distribution, and treatment, to university research.

Climate Change Session

Kirti Nemani,PhD Candidate

The NSERC Chair group will attend the 2022 Ontario’s Water Conference & Trade Show (https://pheedloop.com/owwa22/site/program/), which is organized by OWWA and will be held from May 2^nd to May 4^th in Niagara Falls. Chair members will deliver five oral presentations and two poster presentations at this conference. See below for titles and short abstracts of the presentations:

Climate Change Session

Tuesday, May 3, 10:30 am - 11 am

Thesis Title: Super-fine Powdered Activated Carbon for the Removal of Microcystin-LR from Drinking Water

This year Information Day for our partners was held virtually as well and was comprised of two different webinars. The first webinar was held on November 3rd and was facilitated by UW NSERC Chair Dr. Peter Huck. Guest speaker was Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology, Ph.D.

NSERC Alliance Grant: Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: From sources to receivers

Operating Bicarbonate-Form versus Chloride-Form Ion Exchange Resins without Regeneration for Natural Organic Matter Removal. Liu, ZH., I. Papineau, M. Mohseni, S. Peldszus, P.R. Bérubé , S. Sauvé, and B. Barbeau , 2021. ACS ES&T Water, 1, 6, 1456–1463

The NSERC Chair was part of a US based team of researchers and consultants who collaborated on a Water Research Foundation project (WRF 4966) entitled, “Biological Filtration: NDMA Control or Source of Precursors?” The project has been completed and the final report has been published. WRF is an organization that facilitates research in all areas of drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and water reuse.

Thesis title: Investigating the Role of Water Quality on the Galvanic Corrosion of Lead in Hard Water with a Focus on NOM

Dr. Peter Huck has been inducted as a fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). The ceremony took place in Quebec, in conjunction with the Academy’s 2019 Annual General Meeting and Symposium. Nominated and elected by his peers, in view of his distinguished achievements and career long service to the engineering profession, Dr. Huck will provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada, as part of CAE.

Bench-scale column evaluation of factors associated with changes in N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursor concentrations during drinking water biofiltration

(Zhang, Z., B. Ma, R.M. Hozalski, C.G. Russell, A.N. Evans, K.O. Led, M. Van Dyke, S. Peldszus, P.M. Huck, A. Szczuka, and W.A. Mitch. Water Research, 2019, 167, 1-11.)