CWN places great emphasis on ensuring that its research programs target the needs and priorities of end users. To this end, CWN has re-invested in a number of earlier projects to extend the research and improve understanding in a number of areas important to end users.

These value-added projects have strengthened CWN’s ability to maximize outcomes from earlier investments and ensure that they are applied.

Value-added projects

• Source water protection in Ontario, led by Dr. Rob de Loë
• Surface and groundwater management in the oil sands industry, led by Dr. George Dixon
• Tools for urban water management: Baseline data on the Canadian public’s health risk perceptions and acceptability of alternative water reuse projects, led by Dr. Diane Dupont
• Improved strategies for small-scale rural wastewater management, led by Dr. Robert Gordon
• Developing methods for pathogen surveillance in source waters used for drinking water treatment, led by Dr. Peter Huck
• Arsenic in drinking water: Speciation, human exposure, and treatment technologies, led by Dr. X. Chris Le
• Novel characterization of new water disinfection byproducts, toxicity, occurrence and health risks, led by Dr. Xing-Fang Li
• Assessing the risks of pharmaceuticals in the Canadian environment using SSRIs as model drugs, led by Dr. Chris Metcalfe
• Advanced tools to quantify intrusion in distribution systems, led by Dr. Michèle Prévost
• Assessment of regional water resource impacts from agriculture: A performance-based approach to evaluating risk, alternative practices and economic implications, led by Dr. David Rudolph