On Friday, April 1, graduate students in cohort 8 of Waterloo’s Collaborative Water Program (CWP) completed their final program milestone. The 2022 milestone convened six student groups with a diverse group of water practitioners in six thematic workshop sessions: pollution and remediation, drinking water and wastewater treatment, climate change and infrastructure, ecology and ecohydrology, hydrology and modelling, and governance and policy.
Our thanks to the over 30 water sector professionals from across Canada who participated in the workshops where students shared their research and engaged in thought-provoking discussions. It was a fantastic opportunity to discuss real-world challenges and opportunities, illuminating pathways for the students to careers as water practitioners.
Water Institute member and CWP Director, Nandita Basu, tweeted, “CWP students giving brilliant short talks at the Practitioner Workshops. It is amazing to see them in action.”
Nandita, a professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences and is University Research Chair in Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, has directed the Collaborative Water Program since 2020.
(Top left) WATER 601 instructor, Dustin Garrick, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, joins practitioners and Collaborative Water Program students in the governance and policy session.
The innovative CWP is jointly offered by 11 Waterloo departments and schools from all six academic faculties, making it Canada’s most interdisciplinary graduate program on water.
More information about the Collaborative Water Program is on the Collaborative Water Program website, in the brochure, or available by contacting the Water Institute.