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The green water of Rio’s outdoor Olympic pools has baffled athletes, organizers and spectators but not Waterloo Biologist Kirsten Müller. She is fairly certain that algae is the culprit.

Although low chlorine levels, minerals and copper can also cause water to look green, it’s the cloudy appearance of the water that suggests the presence of an algal biomass.

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Seven full-length videos are now available below that feature many of the guest speakers who presented at the Ecohydrology Research Group Research Symposium.

The research group, with support from the Water Institute, held a full-day research symposium on June 16, 2016, featuring coastal ecologists, watershed model developers, and environmental policy researchers from Europe and North America.

By Amy Geddes, the Water Institute and Sarah J. Brown, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change. This is the latest in a series of #UWCommunity stories that feature Waterloo in the community. 

Usually, you count yourself lucky to have avoided natural disasters first-hand. But Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, the newest exhibit at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener, intentionally immerses visitors in the natural disaster experience via interactive displays.

Sponsored in part by the University of Waterloo in a three-way partnership between Community Relations, the Water Institute and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), visitors of all ages are invited to stand in the eye of a tornado, build a volcano, and move tectonic plates. A dialogue series of public lectures later in the fall, some featuring Waterloo faculty members, will augment the experience.

In an article published Friday, June 17th in Guelph Today, Rob O'Flanagan, wrote about how the Wellington Water Watchers are putting pressure on the province in an effort to oppose Nestlé Waters Canada (Nestlé) and an application for a 10 year extension on their existing permit in Aberfoyle, Ontario along with expansion plans in the Elora area. 

Global water issues are becoming increasingly complex and often require a collaborative approach across a breadth of disciplines. To stimulate interdisciplinary water research, on Monday, May 9 the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute announced it had awarded six teams a combined total of $112,000 during its most recent winter Seed Grants Program application round.

The Water Institute welcomes the newly-elected executive members of the Students of the Water Institute Graduate Section (SWIGS). Made up of volunteers from a variety of disciplines across campus, with very diverse backgrounds, these individuals are brought together by a common interest in water research.

The Water Institute congratulates the Waterloo students who took first place, on March 22, in four out of five categories in the World Water Day research conference poster competition.

Each March, the United Nations celebrates World Water Day. This year, Waterloo celebrated the occasion by hosting its seventh annual water research conference, organized by the Water Institute and Laurier's Institute for Water Science.

A lab coat decorated by Kluane First Nation Youth Councilor Jared Dulac.

A research collaboration between a University of Waterloo biologist and the Kluane First Nation is coming up with good news for the Yukon community — so far, the research team is finding extremely low levels of mercury in the fish.