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WERG group members presented their work this summer at conferences across Canada and Europe. Four group members presented the outcomes of projects funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada under the Climate Action and Awareness Fund over the past few years, focusing on the role of wetlands and peatlands as nature-based solutions to reach Canada’s climate targets. An international visiting graduate student presented his work on the role of water pricing in water demand management under climate change in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Iban Ortuzar Fernandez, Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Department of Economics, joins the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission as an Economic Analyst.

On the 17th and 18th of October, 2025, the University of Winnipeg hosted the 35th Annual Conference of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association. Two members of the Water Economics Research Group (WERG), Iban Ortuzar Fernandez and Khusro Mir presented their research addressing pressing questions in environmental economics in Canada. Also Water Institute member and Professor Emerita Margaret Insley participated. She organizes the next annual conference in Waterloo.

Roy Brouwer, Professor in the Department of Economics, University Research Chair in Water Resources Economics, and Executive Director of the Water Institute, has been appointed to the Science Advisory Board – Science Priority Committee of the International Joint Commission (IJC), a binational partnership between Canada and the United States managing shared waters.

Roy Brouwer, Executive Director of the Water Institute and University Research Chair in Water Resources Economics, contributed to an article recently published by Great Lakes Now, an initiative of Detroit Public TV and PBS.

The article is part of a two-part series looking at the cost of water in Ontario and Michigan.