Title:
Do We Pay Too Much for Tap and Bottled Drinking Water?
Abstract:
This lecture will discuss the challenges facing water utilities across North America and new innovative technologies that will improve water quality along with the cities’ triple bottom line - economic, social and environmental costs. This will be followed by a presentation of recent research on a new water asset management tool that shows how investing in buried infrastructure renewal will result in reduced energy and network operational costs along with lower user fees.
Bio:
Presented by Dr. Mark Knight - Executive Director, Centre for Advancement Technology, Waterloo & Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Waterloo.
Dr. Mark Knight joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1997 and has been the Executive Director of the Centre for Advancement of Trenchless Technology, also located at the University of Waterloo, since 2002.
Mark's research has focused on the new innovative trenchless construction, assessment and renewal technologies used for, out-of-sight and often forgotten deteriorated, leaking and crumbing buried water and wastewater municipal pipelines that deliver clean drinking water business and homes and transport contaminated water to wastewater treatment facilities.