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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Royal Society of Canada honours three Water Institute members

Three University of Waterloo Water Institute researchers have been named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Canada Tries a Forceful Message for Flood Victims: Live Someplace Else

GATINEAU, Quebec — Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is testing a very different idea of disaster recovery: Forcing people to move.

Monday, September 9, 2019

New research alerts governments to problem with groundwater monitoring

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Fall WaterTalks Announced

The Water Institute is pleased to announce several Fall 2019 WaterTalks. Please stay tuned as more talks will be announced in the near future! Mark your calendars!

Saturday, September 21

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Sediment records to provide a missing link: Distinguishing roles of climate change and river regulation on lake drying in the Peace-Athabasca delta

A drying lake. Photo by Robert Magee, Aurora Helicopters

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Agricultural farm tour offers a first-hand look at latest phosphorus management research

On Wednesday a group of more than 50 agriculture industry experts, government officials, crop consultants and farmers attended the Ontario phosphorus research for today’s farming agricultural farm tour hosted by Water Institute member and Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management Merrin

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Water Institute visitor researching ecosystem services of the Amazon rainforest

Anders Dugstad is an economist and currently employed as a PhD research fellow within the economics program at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). This fall, he is visiting the Water Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Friday, August 9, 2019

From its origin in Waterloo in 1993, the International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER) has expanded its reach across the globe

Hohai University, China’s foremost university in water and the environment, recently hosted the 8^th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER 2019). From June 14^th to 18^th, over 300 delegates, including over 70 international attendees from 13 countries, visited Hohai University in Nanjing, China, to participate in the conference.

Friday, August 9, 2019

DFO invests in University of Waterloo mercury study in Frobisher Bay

Water Institute members from the Department of Biology, Professors Michael Power and Heidi Swanson received important financial support for their study that examines mercury contamination in Arctic char in Frobisher Bay. The funding was announced last week when Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister for fisheries and oceans and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Nunavut.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Blame climate change for record water levels in the Great Lakes

Climate change is a deciding factor in record high water levels in the Great Lakes being higher than ever before, as Water Institute member and head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, Blair Feltmate discussed with Ben Mulroney, co-host of CTV’s Your Morning yesterday.