Iban Ortuzar Fernandez, Water Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in the Department of Economics, joins the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission as an Economic Analyst.
A team of Waterloo students, including two from the Water Institute’s Collaborative Water Program, earned international recognition this fall as they represented Waterloo at the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC). WEFTEC is North America’s largest annual gathering for water-quality professionals and a major international showcase for wastewater technology and design, where they won second place in the Student Design Competition.
From modelling floods and droughts to managing watersheds and tracking climate change, today’s environmental challenges require faster, more powerful computing. Now, researchers at the University of Waterloo and across Canada have a new tool to help solve them: Nibi, Waterloo’s newest high-performance supercomputer.
Water Institute members Dr. Nandita Basu and Dr. Julie Mai recently hosted a webinar showcasing the POSEIDON Water Quality Portal, a collaborative platform that uses AI to transform water quality data into actionable insights for researchers, watershed managers, and communities.
Water Institute delegation visits the University of São Paulo (USP) as part of a long-term research collaboration on water (in)security and welcomes visiting USP students to campus
Between October 15-17, 2025, Water Institute members David Rudolph, Philippe Van Cappellen, Andrea Brookfield and Executive Director Roy Brouwer joined University of São Paulo colleagues for a field visit as part of the project SACRE: Integrated Water Solutions for Resilient Cities.
The Water Institute is pleased to launch its Fall 2025 WaterTalks, a three-part speaker series showcasing fresh perspectives on some of today’s most pressing water challenges. This year’s talks will span topics from groundwater use and the water–energy–food–poverty nexus in South Asia to advancing environmental justice and strengthening resilience to hydroclimate extremes.
Dr. Bryan Grimwood, Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies (RLS) in the Faculty of Health, has been awarded approximately $380,000 in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to lead a new research initiative entitled Tourism, ruination, and regenerative futures that rethinks tourism’s role in landscapes marked by environmental and cultural ruination.
When devastating floods swept through Pakistan in 2022, millions were displaced, and more than 1400 lives were lost. For Malak Kamal, a graduate architecture student from Quetta, Pakistan, it was a turning point.
A recent visit to Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has opened new doors for collaboration between researchers at the Water Institute and colleagues at one of Europe’s top technical universities.
Understanding ice dynamics in the Yukon’s St. Elias Mountains to prepare for sea level rise and protect water resources