What is Canada’s water worth?
As part of the Water Institute's
Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada
Roy Brouwer, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo will present:
What is Canada’s water worth?
As part of the Water Institute's
Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada
Roy Brouwer, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo will present:
What is Canada’s water worth?

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Veronica Strang, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, United Kingdom will present: Water, Equality and Diversity: an interdisciplinary approach to inter-species relations.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff Professor, Director, Berkeley Water Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA will present: The Next Water Revolutions.

Water Institute member Jonathan Li, Professor of geospatial data science and remote sensing in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and cross-appointed to the Department of Systems Design Engineering was selected as the 2021 winner of the Geomatica Award granted by the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG).




New Innovation Research Challenge Seeks Proposals for Novel Applications of BlackBerry Technologies to Advance Progress Against UN Sustainable Development Goals
WATERLOO, ONTARIO – January 6, 2022 – Building on a partnership spanning over three decades, BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute, one of the world’s top water research institutes, today launched a first-of-its-kind innovation research challenge for professors and students.
The Water Innovation Challenge invites new applications of BlackBerry technologies to address water-related challenges, including the cybersecurity of water systems, water emergencies, and Internet of Things (IoT) water management solutions.

On November 11, the University of Waterloo is honoured to take part in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK.
From October 31 – November 12, 2021, more than 190 world leaders are expected to arrive in Scotland together with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks aimed at accelerating action on climate change.