Lecture

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesQuentin Grafton, Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), will present: Responding to the World Water Crisis: Mar del Plata (1977) to New York (2023).


This event will be offered in person in EIT 3142 Conference Room from 3-4 p.m., reception to follow from 4:00 - 5 p.m.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesAimée CraftProfessor Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water, will present: Recognizing the spiritedness and agency of water: Personhood and other legal approaches.

This event will be offered in person in DC 1302.
Lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl) from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 16, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

WaterTalk: Droughts in a human-dominated world: Feedbacks, legacies and inequalities

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesDr. Giuliano Di BaldassarreProfessor, Department of Earth Sciences & Principal Investigator HydroSocialExtremes, Uppsala University, Sweden will present: Droughts in a human-dominated world: Feedbacks, legacies and inequalities.

This event will be offered online (Zoom).

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

WaterTalk | John Cherry: Groundwater is the Key to a Sustainable Earth

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesJohn Cherry, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Leader of the Groundwater Project, Recipient of the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize and Lee Kwan Yew Water Prize, 2016 presents: The Global Water Crisis Paradox: Groundwater, Food and Poverty.

This event will be offered in person at the University of Waterloo Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building.
3:30-4:00 p.m. Doors Open
4:00-5:00 p.m. Lecture
5:00-6:30 p.m. Reception

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesGunilla Öberg, Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Professor, The Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway will present: Does the framing matter? On dissent, consensus, and scientific controversies in policy-relevant research.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 from 12:00  - 1:00 p.m. Lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl) from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 20, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalk: Challenges and opportunities for moving from the linear to the circular water cycle

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesWilliam A. Mitch, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, will present: Challenges and opportunities for moving from the linear to the circular water cycle.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 15, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalk: Microplastics in the environment and pitfalls in their analysis

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesJacob de Boer, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, will present: Microplastics in the environment and pitfalls in their analysis.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 followed by a reception from 3:30-5:00p.m.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Bertram BoehrerHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany, will present: Extreme gas pressures in lakes: from the "killer" Lake Nyos (Cameroon) to Guadiana Pit Lake (Spain) and Lake Kivu (Rwanda and DR Congo).

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 and online via Zoom.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalk: Atmospheric moisture tracking

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture seriesPoornima Unnikrishnan, Researcher, Department of Systems Design Engineering will present: Atmospheric moisture tracking.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in EIT 1015 and online via Zoom.