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To provide safe drinking water, utilities need accurate knowledge of how pathogens are removed by various treatment approaches. Project 5110 can help with that 🤓 ✏️ JUST PUBLISHED: https://waterrf.co/3WvTF32 ✏️ This project demonstrates the inadequacy of settled/clarified or filtered water turbidity and identifies design, operational, and/or monitoring strategies for ensuring that the minimum Cryptosporidium oocyst removal assumptions of various regulations are reliably and cost effectively achieved.   🧠 Learn More: https://waterrf.co/3WvTF32 🧠 Principal Investigators: Liza Ballantyne (Toronto Water); Monica Emelko, William (Bill) B Anderson (University of Waterloo); Norma Ruecker (City of Calgary) Project Team: Alireza Anvari (Toronto Water); Elyse Batista, Kalani De Silva (University of Waterloo) Research Partner: The City of Calgary Water Services Research Program Manager: Lyndsey Bloxom, The Water Research Foundation

🦠 In the age of COVID, this world is no stranger to epidemics and pandemics. Project 5029 will help prepare the wastewater industry for future outbreaks of highly infectious virus. 🦠 🧫 JUST PUBLISHED: https://waterrf.co/4d3sB0u 🧫 Specifically, the research team assessed the persistence and disinfection of highly pathogenic emerging viruses on the World Health Organization’s watch list: LASV and SARS-CoV-2, the latter being the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to viral exposure and persistence work with LASV, this research effort also resulted in the development of a quantitative exposure model for worker safety and viral release that may be used by wastewater authorities in the event of a virus outbreak to respond in a timely manner to questions regarding worker and public safety. 👷♀️ 💧 Learn More: https://waterrf.co/4d3sB0u 💧 Principal Investigator: Kyle Bibby (University of Notre Dame) Project Team: Marlee Shaffer, Justin Greaves, Aaron Bivins, Olivia Ginn, Katherine Crank (University of Notre Dame); Robert Fischer, Vincent Munster (National Institutes of Health) Research Program Manager: Lola Olabode, The Water Research Foundation

This expert-led webcast series is designed for wastewater professionals looking to deepen their understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater treatment processes. ✅ Register for FREE: https://lnkd.in/gwJVqCbD Consisting of four 1-hour sessions, the series will cover the types and sources of GHGs from wastewater treatment, the process conditions and mechanisms that drive these emissions, real-world approaches to measuring, monitoring, and quantifying these emissions, and practical strategies for reducing them. 👨🏫 Presenters David Ponder, US Water Alliance Amanda Lake, Jacobs John Willis, Brown and Caldwell 👨🏫 Moderators Harry Zhang, The Water Research Foundation

🔥 New Summer RFPs coming in HOT 🔥 💧Find Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for FOUR additional funding opportunities, along with information on how to apply, on our website: https://lnkd.in/d5Qw55U These new research projects focus on... 🔆 Technology & innovation 💪 Resilient infrastructure 💡 And more! ➡ Proposals are due August 29