Posts Tagged: Water

U of T alumna on directing Toronto’s water infrastructure program

The Civil Engineering Industry Advisory Board (IAB) is an integral link in supporting and strengthening the Department’s relationships with key industries, fostering increased collaborative research, enhancing student experiential learning opportunities and increasing industry engagement.  Our IAB is comprised of a group of…

Intermittent Water Supply

In a city like Toronto, the water never stops running. There’s always pressure conveniently pushing clean water into our homes for on-demand consumption.  But that’s not how the whole world works.  More than a billion people get their daily water…

Water Reuse

Would you wake up one morning and drink a glass of water that your neighbour down the street used a few days ago to take a shower?  That’s the reality for some water-stressed communities around the world, including parts of…

Microplastics in drinking water: how much is too much?

Is there plastic in your drinking water? Professors Bob Andrews (CivMin) and Chelsea Rochman (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) say there is — but right now, researchers don’t know much more than that. “If someone asks me how microplastics in drinking…
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