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4 June 2018, 7.00 pm Showroom cafe

Climate impacts on water sources: quantity, quality and safety

Isabel Douterelo, Uni of Sheffield

Abstract

Access to safe drinking water is one of the most fundamental human rights, required to sustain life and essential to public health and well-being. The main compelling challenge for water administrators worldwide is to guarantee safe drinking water supplies under foreseeable climate change scenarios, which involve drastic changes in environmental conditions, increased water stress, and the appearance of new contaminants and pathogens. These changes will force water companies to modify monitoring and management strategies. Microorganisms govern the chemical and biological process taking place in all aquatic ecosystem, thus they control how the internal environment of drinking water systems works and delivers water. Dr Douterelo’s vision consist in using the “power of microbes” for the advantage of engineering to aid guarantee the supply of clean and safe water in the future.

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Isabel Douterelo is an Engineering and Physical Research Fellow (EPSRC) at the Civil & Structural Engineering Department at The University of Sheffield. Her main research interest are environmental sciences and applied microbiology. Throughout her scientific career she has worked in different microbial-related projects and in multidisciplinary internationally recognised research groups. Her interest in microbial ecology started when she was a student at the University Autonomous of Madrid (Spain), where she studied contamination of freshwater ecosystems and the use of cyanobacteria as bioindicators of water quality. She left Spain and moved to the UK to start her PhD in the Department of Physical Geography at the University of Hull, working with archaeologist to study microbial degradation of archaeological remains in wetlands. After her PhD, she worked as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, studying bacterial adaptive strategies to changing environmental conditions. She joined the Pennine Water Group at the University of Sheffield in 2011 and since then she has worked on EPSRC funded projects, studying different aspects of the microbial ecology of drinking water distribution systems and its adaptation to climate change.

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