Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a new study shows winter carbon emissions from the Arctic may now be putting more carbon into the atmosphere than is taken up by plants each year.
On October 7-8, the Water Institute was pleased to host several colleagues from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil to participate in a workshop that addressed various water security issues facing the Guarani Aquifer. The Guarani Aquifer, which is under increasing threat from deforestation, urbanization and climate change, is the second largest aquifer in the world and is a critical source of freshwater for the megacity of São Paulo.
Water Institute member Elizabeth English was awarded first place in the sustainable products category of the Architecture MasterPrize Product Design Award for her Buoyant Foundation Project of which she is the founder and director.
We have been fortunate over the past several months to have some amazing new talent join the University of Waterloo and the Water Institute. A sincere welcome and we look forward to opportunities to collaborate!
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Systems
On September 25, students of the Collaborative Water Program (CWP), together with Water Institute faculty members and staff, formally recognized and celebrated the contributions of Dr. Mark Servos in developing and delivering the highly successful CWP program over its first six years. The event, organized by the Water Institute’s graduate students association SWIGS, was held at the Huether Hotel.
Renowned socio-hydrologist Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, Chester & Helen Siess Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be at the University of Waterloo on September 26 to deliver a Water Institute WaterTalk entitled “Imagineering” Not Just Engineering Needed to Solve Water Security Challenges”.
GATINEAU, Quebec — Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is testing a very different idea of disaster recovery: Forcing people to move.
