A professor at Waterloo Engineering is the new director of the Water Institute, which brings together expert researchers from all six faculties at the University of Waterloo for a common cause.
Dr. Nandita Basu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, as well as earth and environmental sciences, who holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, started her three-year term as director this month.
“Waterloo has extraordinary researchers doing remarkable work across a wide range of water challenges,” she said.
“We already have the individual strengths — the pearls. What excites me is the possibility of stringing those pearls together to create something much bigger than any one research group could accomplish.”
The Water Institute was established in 2009 to connect researchers across campus and help promote multidisciplinary collaboration.
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