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Water - On Exhibition drew Waterloo students, across a wide range of disciplines, eager to showcase their research and designs on water as a renewable resource.

Held on Oct. 6 at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, ON, the exhibition was a collaboration between Students of the Water Institute Graduate Section (SWIGS) and the BRIDGE Centre of Architecture + Design.

Water Institute booth at the Innovation Event at the Great Lakes Public Forum displays graduate student oxygen sensor, pictured on the table at left.

Pieter van der Zaag (pictured above left on the Shand Dam at Belwood Lake with program director Bruce MacVicar) spent a week with University of Waterloo Collaborative Water Program students during his stay as an RBC Visiting Fellow.

Warner studies the dynamics of natural, restored, and created wetlands using a variety of ecological and paleoecological indicators. These methods are used to study wetland ecosystems across a variety of spatial scales and temporal scales.

Congratulations to Water Institute members Prateep Nayak, Derek Armitage and Olaf Weber, three of 29 Waterloo researchers to recently receive a combined total of $5.7 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

This past week, WATER 602 (Integrated Water Project) students — a group of almost 50 graduate students — explored the Grand River watershed, examining landscapes, infrastructure and conditions from an interdisciplinary perspective.

$78 million from the Government of Canada will position the country as a global hub for leading-edge, user-driven water science for the world’s cold regions. The University of Waterloo’s Water Institute will be a key partner on the University of Saskatchewan-led Global Water Futures initiative.

Forests, wetlands and grasslands all provide “watershed services” by enhancing water quality and supply, biodiversity and carbon storage. They have economic value but unfortunately their market price is $0, says the executive director of the Water Institute.