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Dr. William B. Anderson is a Research Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Water Science, Technology & Policy Group at the University of Waterloo. He has been active in drinking water quality and treatment research for more than 40 years, recently focusing on pathogen identification/removal/inactivation, assessment of adsorbed and desorption of contaminants on microplastics, better understanding of the role of colloidal nutrients on cyanobacterial growth in drinking water reservoirs, perfluorinated compounds, and biological filtration.

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.

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2010, 2020

Population-Wide Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Drinking Water

October 20th, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

an interesting ‘perspective’ on lead in drinking water appeared in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It appears to be freely accessible. It starts with “How Flint Happened, How it Happens Today, and How to Stop it Tomorrow” and ends with a “Call for Renewed Commitment to Lead Corrosion Science and Engineering.

1410, 2020

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in Water and Wastewater

October 14th, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

an interesting ‘perspective’ on lead in drinking water appeared in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It appears to be freely accessible. It starts with “How Flint Happened, How it Happens Today, and How to Stop it Tomorrow” and ends with a “Call for Renewed Commitment to Lead Corrosion Science and Engineering.

810, 2020

Two papers on surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater

October 8th, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

an interesting ‘perspective’ on lead in drinking water appeared in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It appears to be freely accessible. It starts with “How Flint Happened, How it Happens Today, and How to Stop it Tomorrow” and ends with a “Call for Renewed Commitment to Lead Corrosion Science and Engineering.

2309, 2020

Microplastics-From Mystery to Monitoring and Mitigation-webinar Sept 23

September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

Health Canada continues to be active with requests for public comment on proposed drinking water guidelines and guidance documents. At present, there are 4 of these with due dates for comments in the next three months. I’ve listed them below along with the due dates for comments. Each is linked to the Health Canada website with PDF format documents which can be downloaded.

2209, 2020

The pervasive threat of lead (Pb) in drinking water

September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

an interesting ‘perspective’ on lead in drinking water appeared in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It appears to be freely accessible. It starts with “How Flint Happened, How it Happens Today, and How to Stop it Tomorrow” and ends with a “Call for Renewed Commitment to Lead Corrosion Science and Engineering.

1908, 2020

The impact of risk management measures on the concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

August 19th, 2020|Categories: Drinking Water, Papers & Articles, Water Treatment|0 Comments

Hi all…a just published article in [...]

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