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Dr. William B. Anderson retired on January 1, 2025. He maintains a connection to the Water Science, Technology & Policy Group through an adjunct professorship to guide his remaining graduate students through to their degree completion. He was previously a Research Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the group. He has been active in drinking water quality and treatment research for over 45 years, more recently focusing on contaminant adsorption to microplastics, microplastic removal through chemically assisted filtration, pathogen removal, perfluorinated compounds, cyanobacteria and their toxins, and biological filtration. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Ontario Water Works Association (OWWA) and the Walkerton Clean Water Centre and currently serves on the OWWA Advocacy Steering Committee and the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association Drinking Water Quality Committee. Please note that Dr. Anderson is no longer accepting graduate students.
The past 15 years, Bill has maintained an email service drawing attention to items of interest to drinking water professionals including, for example, the latest research articles, regulatory updates, outbreak reports, topical issues, and media stories. Bill’s email service has expanded over time to include all interested individuals. These emails are now also archived here in a blog format as they are released, which can be explored by category or simply by scrolling through the posts below.
If you would like to join Bill’s email list for updates straight to your inbox, you can send an email to Bill to be added to the list.
Recently released study associates nitrates with bladder cancer in women
Hi all…nitrate and nitrate in drinking water have been regulated [...]
Sampling Guidance for Unknown Contaminants in Drinking Water-new USEPA report
Hi all…The USEPA released a report in Feb 2017 entitled [...]
Revised World Health Organization drinking water guidelines
Hi all…do you want to know how guidelines/standards in your [...]
Microcystis Rising: Why Phosphorus Reduction Isn’t Enough to Stop CyanoHABs
Hi all…for several decades now it has been known that [...]
Microcystis Rising: Why Phosphorus Reduction Isn’t Enough to Stop CyanoHABs
For several decades now it has been known that phosphorus reduction is good way to control microcystis blooms (the cyanobacteria that produce the regulated microcystin-LR toxin). However, a recent article reports that “an excess of another nutrient, nitrogen, shifts the balance in favor of Microcystis rather than other HAB-forming cyanobacteria, diatoms, or green algae.”
Rise of toxic cyanobacterial blooms in temperate freshwater lakes: causes, correlations and possible countermeasures
Hi all…for those of you who deal with raw water [...]