Monica Emelko is the Canada Research Chair in Water Science, Technology & Policy, and Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where she is also the Associate Director of Climate Risk, Resilience, and Adaptation at the Waterloo Climate Institute. Her research is focused on drinking water treatment and risk analysis for public health protection and has informed water regulations globally including the U.S. Surface Water Treatment Rules and their international equivalents. Monica is the Scientific Director of the forWater NSERC Strategic Network & co-leads the Southern Rockies Watershed Project. Monica and her research group have investigated the effects of climate-exacerbated land disturbances on hydrology, water quality, ecology, and treatability for over 18 years. They were the first globally to be cited by the IPCC for identifying climate change-associated threats to drinking security through water quality and treatability.