Posts Tagged: Water
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…
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…
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…
A mine straddling the border of Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba will be the first site in the world to deploy an innovative new technique for monitoring and managing sulfur compounds, including thiosalts. The strategy improves understanding of possible impacts in…
Q&A with Prof. Elodie Passeport: Can green infrastructure keep microplastics out of the environment?
You may have heard of the Great Pacific garbage patch, but the majority of plastic waste in the environment is more subtle: tiny particles ranging from the size of a pea to the thickness of a human hair — and…
A sensor known as the SmartSpout, designed in part by U of T Engineering professor David Meyer (CivMin, CGEN) has been successfully deployed in a large-scale field trial in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. The results, published in Environmental Science & Technology, showcase the power of…
June 12, 2021 | STOREYS
Is there plastic in your drinking water? The University of Toronto’s Bob Andrews and Chelsea Rochman say there is – but, unfortunately, they don’t have much more information to share. “If someone asks me how microplastics in drinking water influence human health, I have…
In Toronto, when you turn on a water tap, water comes out. But for more than a billion people around the world, that is not always the case. “About 21% of the world’s water pipes don’t usually have water in…
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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