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An alumnus of Waterloo's System Design Engineering and 2017 winner of the AquaHacking competition who parlayed his graduate research into a startup company that is out to solve worldwide water problems has been recognized by a national innovation organization.

Jason Deglint, a co-founder of Blue Lion Labs, is one of five winners of a Mitacs Entrepreneur Award for turning research into businesses that impact the lives of Canadians.

In an impactful article just released in Nature’s Communications Earth & Environment journal, Water Institute members Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen provide insight into how global peatlands may respond to future climate warming.

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Aquanty Inc. recently announced initiation of the Canada 1 Water project to address the long-term sustainability of Canada’s water resources.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are working with Region of Waterloo Public Health to use wastewater effluent to track COVID-19 trends in the region. 

On May 31, the Government of Canada announced recipients of its New Frontiers in Research Funding (NFRF) 2020 Exploration competition. The NFRF program, a federal research funding initiative, mobilizes cutting-edge interdisciplinary, international, and transformative research that strengthens Canadian innovation.

Since the start in June 2017 the forWater Network, led by Water Institute member Professor Monica Emelko, has been contributing critical knowledge to the field of forest management and water treatment research. This unprecedented Network brings together two very distinct fields, forest management and drinking water treatment technology. Beyond bridging vastly different disciplines, the Network also spans research across Canada's five major ecozone.

Not only is it a myth that Canada has an abundance of readily accessible water, say researchers, but we're poorly managing what we do have.

The fact that Canada faces real threats to its water security will surprise many Canadians, as the popular perception is that we are a country with a virtually inexhaustible supply of water.

A twenty-minute saliva-based COVID-19 test may be coming soon to a pharmacy near you, thanks to researchers at the University of Waterloo.