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wildfire

As residents try to resume their lives more than a month after a ferocious wildfire forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray, crucial questions about its impact on their water supply still have no clear answers.

nandita basu
Nandita Basu, from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, along with her doctoral student Kim Van Meter, published the first direct evidence of a large-scale nitrogen legacy in the Mississippi River Basin from agricultural runoff.

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.

researcher beside stream

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.

lab coat food security

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.

john cherry

The Singapore International Water Week announced today that John Cherry, distinguished professor emeritus from Waterloo's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, will be awarded the 2016 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize, a prestigious international award worth more than $280,000 CDN.