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.
In May 2020, Water Institute member Marek Stastna, professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, was elected President of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS). In this uniquely challenging year, the President’s role has presented new opportunities for Marek such as the implementation of virtual programming and leading the development of a new Strategic Plan.
Executive director of the Water Institute and profressor in Waterloo's Department of Economics, Roy Brouwer, is leading a new project called "Valuing Canada’s Water Resources and Aquatic Ecosystem Services." This project is the largest co-ordinated water valuation research program in Canada, aiming to develop, test and apply reliable and robust state-of-the-art valuation methods and techniques for aquatic ecosystem services in different water policy cont
We are delighted to announce that Professor Roy Brouwer has been re-appointed as the Water Institute’s Executive Director, after extensive consultation of all Water Institute members last year. Brouwer, who has been in the role since 2016, began his second term as Executive Director on January 1, 2021.
The Water Institute together with the Gordon Foundation and the Lake Futures project recently released a report that documents outcomes of a “Data Needs in the Great Lakes” workshop held virtually on December 2-3, 2020.
Susan Elliott, a researcher in Geography and Environmental Management joins an esteemed group of international health researchers in receiving the 2020 Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award in Health and Medical Geography.
