Facing the Floods: Infrastructure Resilience to Face Climate Change
In Fall 2020, Evergreen hosted an event called 'Future Cities Canada - Unexpected Solutions' to highlight innovative solutions to urban challenges. Urban Water TMU curated a panel discussion among water experts to address infrastructure resilience in view of climate change. The panel was titled 'Facing the Floods: Infrastructure Resilience to Face Climate Change' and focussed on how distributed systems for water management may offer a new pathway to community resilience.
| Role | Name | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Leland Jackson | Scientific Director of “Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets, University of Calgary |
| Speaker | Madjid Mohseni | Scientific Director of the Res’eau Centre for Mobilizing Innovation, University of British Columbia |
| Speaker | Banu Ormeci | Canada Research Professor and Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health, Carleton University |
| Moderator | Nick Reid | Executive Director, Urban Water TMU |
Following a brief introduction and land acknowledgment, Nick Reid, Urban Water TMU, introduced the speakers.
Madjid Mohseni, UBC, was the first to speak. He described that while centralized water treatment and delivery is present in most urban areas, decentralized and distributed strategies are preferable because of the redundancy, specialization, and control that they offer. He then spoke about the benefits and barriers to this approach to water treatment.
Banu Ormeci, Carleton, followed by speaking about wastewater and storm water systems and their optimization to respond to climate change challenges.
The last segment was led by Leland Jackson, UCalgary. He spoke about the role of integrated data systems and analytics in design and implementation of distributed treatment solutions to respond to the complexity of managing multiple installations.
The full interview can be found here (external link, opens in new window) .