Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University

We are focused on examining the mechanisms that lead to poor drinking water quality and on developing technologies to protect Canadian drinking water.

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The Drinking Water Quality Group would like to welcome Dr. Xiaying Xin to Queen's University. Dr. Xin is an expert in advanced oxidation techniques for water treatment and antimicrobial resistance. Welcome Xiaying! @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre

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Congratulations to Nishana Ramsawak (PhD Candidate) in the Drinking Water Quality Group (@DWQG) on the successful completion of her comprehensive exam in the Dept of Civil Engineering! Congratulations Nishana!

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Congratulations to Nishana Ramsawak (PhD Candidate) in the Drinking Water Quality Group (@DWQG) on the successful completion of her comprehensive exam in the Dept of Civil Engineering! Congratulations Nishana!

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Dr. Artur Braga and Prof. Yves Filion have had their research on metal accumulation and mobilization in drinking water systems published in the journal Water Research. @DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre
#drinkingwater, and #civilengineering

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Dr. Artur Braga and Prof. Yves Filion have had their research on metal accumulation and mobilization in drinking water systems published in the journal Water Research. @DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre
#drinkingwater, and #civilengineering

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Congratulations to Artur Sass Braga for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Artur will be starting a post-doc with Dr Filion in the Drinking Water Quality Group. @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre
#drinkingwater, and #civilengineering

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Dr Sarah Jane Payne - co-director of the Drinking Water Quality Group is profiled in the Queen's Gazette this morning #civilengineer #queensu #WorldWaterDay

https://t.co/xluapgD3cl

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The paper entitled "Initial stages of particulate iron oxide deposition on drinking water PVC pipes characterized by turbidity data and brightfield microscopy from a full-scale laboratory." by Artur Braga (PhD) and Dr Y. Filion has been accepted by ES&T @queens_civil @BeatyCentre

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Ben Anderson will be joining the Drinking Water Quality Group as an MASc student in Sept 2022. Welcome Ben! @DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre
#drinkingwater, and #civilengineering

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Ben Anderson will be joining the Drinking Water Quality Group as an MASc student in Sept 2022. Welcome Ben! @DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil @BeatyCentre
#drinkingwater, and #civilengineering

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

The paper entitled "Initial stages of particulate iron oxide deposition on drinking water PVC pipes characterized by turbidity data and brightfield microscopy from a full-scale laboratory." by Artur Braga (PhD) and Dr Y. Filion has been accepted by ES&T @queens_civil @BeatyCentre

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Dr Sarah Jane Payne - co-director of the Drinking Water Quality Group is profiled in the Queen's Gazette this morning #civilengineer #queensu #WorldWaterDay

https://t.co/xluapgD3cl

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Congratulations to Susie Dunn (MASc @DWQGQueens) who was a part of the Q's Women’s Rugby Team that won gold at the USports Nat. Champ. this past weekend hosted at Queen’s. Susie played with the team for 4 years in her undergrad and helped coach the team the Championship!

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Congratulations to Lucas Celia (Research Assistant) with the Drinking Water Quality Group (@DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil) who was part of the Queen’s Men’s Eight Rowing Crew who won bronze at the Canadian University Rowing Championships in Welland, ON!

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Congratulations to Victoria Rilstone, Leah Vignale (PhD candidates), Dr. Yves Filion, and Dr. Pascale Champagne (@DWQGQueens @Network_CEC @queens_civil) on their paper “A comprehensive review on current technologies for removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals from wastewaters.”

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

Congratulations to PhD student Artur Sass Braga (@ASassBraga) and Dr. Yves Filion (@queens_civil) on their published paper entitled “A novel monitoring scheme to detect iron oxide
particle deposits on the internal surface of PVC
drinking water pipes” @Network_CEC @BeatyCentr

[Drinking Water Quality Group at Queen's University @DWQGQueens]

The Drinking Water Quality Group would like to welcome new MASc students Susie Dunn and Laura Meteer co-supervised by Drs. Sarah Jane Payne and Yves Filion @queens_civil. Susie and Laura will be examining the mechanisms behind metal accumulation/mobilization in drinking water.

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Artur Sass Braga (PhD candidate) and Dr. Yves Filion ( @Network_CEC) have submitted a paper to the journal Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology on a novel coupon/microscopy approach to monitor metals and sediments in drinking water pipes.

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Dr. Yves Filion (@DWQGQueens) and Dr. Pascale Champagne (@Network_CEC @PChampagneBio RG) with their research group (RtoL: L. Vignale-PhD, V. Rilstone-PhD, J. Craddock-MASc, A. Sass Braga-PhD) are examining the development of resistance to antibiotics and metals in water systems.

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Dr. Filion is part of a research team (Drs. Oleschuk, Ross, and She (Chemistry), Dr. John Rudan (Surgery), and Dr. Prameet Sheth (Bio Mol Sci) were awarded a Queen’s Wicked Ideas Grant ($75k) for their proposed research in characterizing the chemical signature of biofilms.