Water Institute member explains how and why during 40th annual Forest Industry Lecture
On
November
2,
2017,
Waterloo
Engineering
professor
and
Water
Institute
member,
Monica
Emelko,
delivered
the
40th
annual
Forest
Industry
Lecture
at
the
University
of
Alberta,
"Strategic
Importance
of
Canada’s
Forests
in
National
Drinking
Water
Security."
The
lecture
is
now
available online
(see
below).
Emelko is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the University of Waterloo's Water Science, Technology and Policy research group. Her research focuses on drinking water supply and treatment. She co-leads a team that was among the first cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for identifying quality-associated threats from climate change to water security. Emelko now co-leads "forWater," a Canada-wide and internationally-partnered strategic research network focused on forest management-based approaches for drinking water source protection.