Intelligent infrastructure for sustainable potable water: a roundtable for emerging transnational research and technology development needs

Adriaens, Peter; Goovaerts, Pierre; Skerlos, Steven J.; Edwards, Elizabeth A.; Egli, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2003.08.017

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“…Sensor development must incorporate networkability as well as adaptability to projected advances in adjacent technologies. Modern data acquisition and communication systems will eliminate the impediments of time and distance by providing rapid access to information, which will be interpreted for risk-based decision-making [7].…”

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“…A distributed microbial (and chemical) sensing network implemented within this framework would provide an intelligent infrastructure for decision support systems on land-use, and water treatment optimization by providing valuable data including identification, quantification, and spatial distribution of microbial (and viral) contamination (e.g. [7]). Moreover, when coupled to distributed computational groundwater models incorporating geographic features, information would be gained on local and regional impending threats as the result of microbial and chemical transport.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Flow cytometry for microbial sensing in environmental sustainability applications: current status and future prospects

Gruden

Skerlos

Adriaens

2004

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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Practical and accurate microbial assessment of environmental systems is predicated on the detection and quantification of various microbial parameters in complex matrices. Traditional growth-based assays, considered to be both slow and biased, are increasingly being replaced by optical detection methods such as flow cytometry. Flow cytometry (FCM) offers high-speed multi-parametric data acquisition, compatibility with current molecular-based microbial detection technologies, and is a proven technology platform. The unique technical properties of flow cytometry have allowed the discrimination of bacteria based on nucleic acid staining, microbial identification based on genomic and immunologic characteristics, and determination of cell viability. For this technology to achieve the ultimate goal of monitoring the microbial ecology of distributed systems, it will be necessary to develop a fully functional, low cost, and networkable microsystem platform capable of rapid detection of multiple species of microorganisms simultaneously under realistic environmental conditions. One such microsystem, miniaturized and integrated in accordance with recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems technology, is named the Micro Integrated Flow Cytometer. This manuscript is a minireview of the current status and future prospects for environmental application of flow cytometry in general, and micro-flow cytometry in particular.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Flow cytometry for microbial sensing in environmental sustainability applications: current status and future prospects

Gruden

Skerlos

Adriaens

2004

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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“…Research on water quality is focused typically at the watershed scale, examining how to protect watershed regions that drain into drinking water sources [106,[130][131][132]. Features such as industry, roads, unplanned/illegal settlements (which tend to have poor wastewater treatment), are mapped and quantified [131,133,134].…”

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Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing

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This paper reviews how remotely sensed data have been used to understand the impact of urbanization on global environmental change. We describe how these studies can support the policy and science communities' increasing need for detailed and up-to-date information on the multiple dimensions of cities, including their social, biological, physical, and infrastructural characteristics. Because the interactions between urban and surrounding areas are complex, a synoptic and spatial view offered from remote sensing is integral to measuring, modeling, and understanding these relationships. Here we focus on OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2014, 6 3880 three themes in urban remote sensing science: mapping, indices, and modeling. For mapping we describe the data sources, methods, and limitations of mapping urban boundaries, land use and land cover, population, temperature, and air quality. Second, we described how spectral information is manipulated to create comparative biophysical, social, and spatial indices of the urban environment. Finally, we focus how the mapped information and indices are used as inputs or parameters in models that measure changes in climate, hydrology, land use, and economics.

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“…It is widely acknowledged that the severity of existing water problems, compounded by increasing stress on water resources from growing human needs and a changing climate, demands rapid innovation (Saleth and Dinar 2000;Kaika and Page 2003;Delli Priscoli and Wolf 2009). Innovative technologies certainly are needed to respond to threats such as the emerging contaminants that are being discovered in water bodies that supply drinking water systems (Adriaens et al 2003). However, technological innovation alone will not be sufficient.…”

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Importing Notions of Governance: Two Examples from the History of Canadian Water Policy

Michaels¹,

Loë²

2010

American Review of Canadian Studies

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As stress on water resources increases from growing human demands and a changing climate, recognition of the need to develop effective strategies for water governance is expanding. Consequently, it is timely to consider the legacy of effective instances of water policy innovation that have been highly influential in water resource management in Canada. We present two historical examples of policy transfer -that is, when policy employed in one jurisdiction is adapted for use in another. The first is the late nineteenth-century adoption of water allocation law in the North-West Territories that was a noteworthy departure from how water had been allocated in eastern Canada. The second is the twentieth-century introduction of conservation authorities in Ontario as regional watershed-based management entities. These examples illustrate how, in an era of expert-driven natural resources management, notions of governance were adapted from Australia and the United States. They also reveal how the biophysically-based policy context of water influences which policy transfer mechanisms are appropriate for lesson-learning. We conclude that the potential for policy transfer and lesson-learning to shorten the policy innovation timeline must be viewed as a critical response to urgent and evolving demands on water.

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Intelligent infrastructure for sustainable potable water: a roundtable for emerging transnational research and technology development needs

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Flow cytometry for microbial sensing in environmental sustainability applications: current status and future prospects

Flow cytometry for microbial sensing in environmental sustainability applications: current status and future prospects

Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing

Importing Notions of Governance: Two Examples from the History of Canadian Water Policy

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