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Heavy rainfall and record-setting water levels in the Great Lakes led to widespread flooding across Ontario this year. Now the waters are retreating, and soaked communities across the province are starting to count their losses. But how do you put a price on the damage?

The laboratories of Barb Katzenback and Paul Craig at the University of Waterloo, are seeking a PhD student for a Global Water Futures-funded environmental genomics research project: "Next generation solutions to ensure healthy water resources for future generations."

As Canada spends a half-billion dollars celebrating its 150^th year since confederation, it appears more than 150 drinking water advisories still exist, most of them in First Nations communities.

Water Institute member, Peter Huck, comments.

As part of the Water Institute WaterTalks lecture series, with Günter Blöschl, head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Vienna University of Technology, will be presenting "Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems."

The AquaHacking 2017 semi-final competition unfolded last week at CIGI. By the end of the evening, five teams were chosen to move on to the final competition at Waterloo on September 13. It was a difficult decision for the five judges, as all 17 teams that competed offered innovative ideas that tackled the challenges and opportunities facing Lake Erie.

The second International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering – hosted by Water Institute member and associate professor Elizabeth English – took place June 25-28, and brought together academics, practitioners, professionals and policymakers to discuss amphibious architecture.

Water Institute member and professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, Larry Swatuk, is the author of a new book titled “Water in Southern Africa.”

Larry lived for 14 years in Africa, primarily in Botswana, where he was a lecturer at the University of Botswana and associate professor of Resource Governance at the Okavango Research Institute. He has published extensively on issues pertaining to the ‘wise use’ of the resources of the Okavango River basin.

In this Water Institute seminar, professor Sascha Oswald from the University of Potsdam's Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences presents, "Detailed monitoring of microplastic particles in an urban water course facilitated by a novel, powerful detection method - an approach for identifying dynamic inputs of microplastics."

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

While a lot of noise is made about preventing floods by banning construction and rebuilding in flood zones, many existing neighbourhoods need protection and not relocation.

Retrofitting homes is one solution, with sustainability pilot projects already taking place in municipalities like Durham Region and Burlington in the GTA.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Ecohydrology Seminar Series: Dr. Sabine Attinger

Catchment scale flow and transport: Selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models

As part of Ecohydrology's seminar series, professor Sabine Attinger from the Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research will present, "Catchment scale flow and transport: selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models."

Coffee will be provided.

Future students

The flooding and the damage done, Blair Feltmate comments

PhD Biology position available for a Global Water Futures-funded environmental genomics project

Water Institute member Peter Huck comments on Canada's drinking water advisories

Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems

University of Waterloo students make a big splash in the 2017 AquaHacking semi-finals

Floating a new approach to cope with floods: Conference brings together experts in amphibious architecture

Interview with Larry Swatuk, author of Water in Southern Africa

Detailed monitoring of microplastic particles in an urban water course facilitated by a novel, powerful detection method

As the floods come, who should pay the price for preparation?

Ecohydrology Seminar Series: Dr. Sabine Attinger

Catchment scale flow and transport: Selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models

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