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On September 25, students of the Collaborative Water Program (CWP), together with Water Institute faculty members and staff, formally recognized and celebrated the contributions of Dr. Mark Servos in developing and delivering the highly successful CWP program over its first six years. The event, organized by the Water Institute’s graduate students association SWIGS, was held at the Huether Hotel.

Renowned socio-hydrologist Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, Chester & Helen Siess Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be at the University of Waterloo on September 26 to deliver a Water Institute WaterTalk entitled “Imagineering” Not Just Engineering Needed to Solve Water Security Challenges”.

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.

A drying lake. Photo by Robert Magee, Aurora Helicopters

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!

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 Macrae and th

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.