News archive - September 2023

Dr. Nandita Basu, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, Director, Collaborative Water Program and Water Institute member, received two major awards from the American Geophysical Union (AGU): the 2023 Joanne Simpson Medal, a Union level award for significant contributions to the earth and space sciences, and the Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture, a Hydrology Section award that recognizes contributions to the hydrologic sciences. In addition, as a Simpson awardee, Nandita is also named an AGU Fellow, an honour bestowed to less than 0.1% of its members.

A University of Waterloo press release.

Ontario may seem to be a water secure region, but new research out of the University of Waterloo challenges the myth of water abundance in the Great Lakes watershed. 

Using a first-of-its-kind risk analysis, researchers connected water quality, quantity, regulations and public concern to obtain a more comprehensive picture of water security at the local level. The novel approach revealed that at least half of the studied watersheds had a moderate to high potential for risk.