Join the Ecohydrology Research Group on Friday, December 6th for an Ecohydrology Research Symposium in celebration of the years of impactful research conducted by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, his students and colleagues, past and present.
To help commercial property owners better understand and deal with the risk of flooding, the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation has issued a new report.
By Brian Caldwell, Faculty of Engineering.
Managing reservoirs for water quality, not just flood control, could be part of the solution to the growth of toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, every summer.
In a major study involving data from Canada and the United States, researchers at the University of Waterloo identified reservoirs on streams and rivers as sources of food for algae at the worst possible time.
Waterloo water alumni Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor, CEO of Emagin Clean Technologies is featured in the latest article of the Ontario Water Consortium “From Lab Bench to Marketplace” series. The startup’s AI software promises to change water monitoring, distribution and treatment, both locally and globally.
The Antarctic ship is called The Hebridean Sky.
Water Institute member and professor of Chemistry, Janusz Pawliszyn, is featured in the new Ontario Water Consortium “From Lab Bench to Marketplace” series where his lab’s development of innovative thin-film solid-phase micro-extraction membrane that allows for the extraction of contaminants from water in parts per trillion is discussed.
The Water Institute is delighted to announce that Dr. Mark Servos, Professor in the Department of Biology and Canada Research Chair in Water Quality Protection, was honoured this past weekend with a major award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). SETAC is a worldwide, professional organization dedicated to environmental integrity and education, with more than 5,000 members over 90 countries.
After hundreds of dead carp were found in mid-August floating in Alder Lake in New Dundee, fish from the millpond were tested. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has now confirmed those samples tested positive for the koi herpesvirus.
