71st webinar in the Hebd'Eau series entitled "71st webinar in the Hebd'Eau series entitled "Assessing future urban water demand: an essential step toward sustainable water management in Quebec" by Marie-Belle Achkar
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Marie-Belle Achkar, a civil engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal, specializes in water and environmental research as part of her master's degree. She received an excellence scholarship after completing a four-year civil engineering program at the Lebanese University. Passionate about water, she explores the impacts of climate change in a participative and integrated manner. Her research project aims to develop a model for assessing future urban water demand in Quebec. As the regional representative for Quebec in the student committee of the Canadian Water Network, her presentation won the "Public's Choice" award at CentrEau.
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Studying the impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures on water resources is a crucial step to observe their evolution and take early action for conservation. However, ensuring sustainable water management goes beyond studying the "supply" and requires evaluating the "demand" as well. In the Quebec context, future projections of climate variables, particularly air temperature, show an increasing trend, paralleled by a growing population. Additionally, the application of the Quebec Strategy for drinking water conservation encourages consumption reduction while emphasizing infrastructure maintenance. How do these factors influence water demand? What challenges arise in modeling this demand?
This presentation will be in French .
