Sixth webinar of the series entitled "Bank filtration: a source of drinking hybrid surface/underground water"
Speaker: Prof. Paul Baudron, Polytechnique Montréal
Language: French, with slides in French
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Summary: Ensuring a continuous supply of quality drinking water is one of the most important challenges of modern society. A simple solution to benefit from large volumes of naturally filtered water at low cost is to install wells in the banks of lakes or rivers. This system, called bank filtration, combines the advantages of surface water and groundwater. Many municipalities in Quebec have successfully turned to this hybrid source of drinking water. However, in a context of the emergence of micropollutants, climatic forcing and hydrological extremes, the sustainability of the contaminant mitigation capacity of bank filtration sites raises questions of fundamental importance related to the vulnerability of sources.
New series of weekly CentrEau webinars "all about water management". These short 20-minute presentations will be offered live every Thursday at 1 p.m. followed by a short discussion period. CentrEau professors and researchers, as well as guest speakers, will present their research work and its importance in a semi-popularized manner.
Watch the previous webinars on our YouTube Channel!
