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Friday, February 10, 2017

Fort McMurray seeing big spike in water-treatment costs, Monica Emelko comments

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CBC News recently featured a story on the rising cost of providing clean drinking water to Fort McMurray after the 2016 wildfire. The city's water treatment plant is spending more on food-grade chemicals to remove burnt forest-floor ash that's flushing into the municipality's drinking water supply.

Water Institute member Monica Emelko has been working with the province and the municipality since day one to monitor the wildfire's impact on the Athabasca River.

The story includes an interview by Emelko an, Associate Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and her team. 

Thursday, March 2, 2017 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Coastal watersheds in the Anthropocene: Understanding rapid change and implication for people and ecosystems

Join us for a facilitated panel discussion on coastal watersheds in the Anthropocene. Supported by the OceanCanada Partnership and the Water Institute, this public event is being organized as part of a two-day workshop with the goal to develop and apply a social-ecological system perspective to broaden our understanding of abrupt and rapid changes in coastal watersheds. 

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 (all day)

World Water Day 2017

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The eighth annual UN World Water Day in Waterloo is on March 22, 2017. This year's theme is wastewater, and the campaign ‘Why waste water?’ is about reducing and reusing wastewater. 

Co-hosted by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, this event is a celebration of water which showcases water research at both universities. This year it will be hosted at Wilfrid Laurier. 

Monday, June 19, 2017 8:00 am - Friday, June 23, 2017 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Principles of Hydrologic Modelling: Professional short course and graduate course (CIVE 781)

This course, hosted at the University of Waterloo and co-sponsored by the Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences and the Canadian Water Resources Association, addresses the development of computational models of watershed hydrology in support of water resources management and scientific investigation.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Water: Abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity

Jeremy SchmidtAs part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Jeremy Schmidt, lecturer of Human Geography at Durham University, United Kingdom, presents "Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity."

Register today.

Friday, February 24, 2017 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

From Uncertainty Quantification to Hypothesis-Testing in Hydrological Application: Review of recent advances

Dmitri Kavetski
Environmental scientists and engineers often require calibrating and testing their models against observed data. Despite major research efforts by the hydrological community, both topics present formidable challenges, both in operational and research settings.

Register today.

Sunday, February 5, 2017 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Nature Unleashed — Fires, Floods and Other Natural Disasters: Climate Change Threats to Water Across Canada

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As part of THEMUSEUM's Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters dialogues series, Water Institute member and Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Monica Emelko, will present “Fires, Floods and Other Natural Disasters: Climate change threats to water across Canada.”

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Thursday, February 2, 2017 (all day)

World Wetlands Day Public Lecture and Research Symposium

Join us at the University of Waterloo in celebration of World Wetlands Day. On this annual international day of significance, wetlands groups across the globe commemorate the February 2, 1971 adoption of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

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