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As part of the Collaborative Water Program’s WATER 601 course, student teams delivered final presentations featuring integrated water management solutions to complex water challenges, sharing their ideas with a panel of experts from the University of Waterloo and the Canada Water Agency (CWA). The exercise goes beyond a typical class assignment. It asks students to think across disciplines, weigh ecological, social and economic trade-offs and deliver practical recommendations that could inform real policy and practice.

Sunlight-powered process converts plastic waste into a valuable chemical without added emissions

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. 

In a recent CBC News feature, Water Institute executive director and economics professor Roy Brouwer discusses concerns that Ontario continues to undervalue freshwater resources and overlook the long-term environmental costs of groundwater extraction.

The University of Eastern Finland hosted Roy Brouwer, Executive Director of the Water Institute and University Research Chair in Water Resources Economics and PhD student Khusro Mir, in Joensuu, Kuopio, Finland at a 5 day water resource economics course presented by professor Brouwer.