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On Wednesday a group of more than 50 agriculture industry experts, government officials, crop consultants and farmers attended the Ontario phosphorus research for today’s farming agricultural farm tour hosted by Water Institute member and Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management Merrin Macrae and th

Anders Dugstad is an economist and currently employed as a PhD research fellow within the economics program at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). This fall, he is visiting the Water Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Water Institute members from the Department of Biology, Professors Michael Power and Heidi Swanson received important financial support for their study that examines mercury contamination in Arctic char in Frobisher Bay. The funding was announced last week when Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister for fisheries and oceans and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Nunavut.

Hohai University, China’s foremost university in water and the environment, recently hosted the 8^th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER 2019). From June 14^th to 18^th, over 300 delegates, including over 70 international attendees from 13 countries, visited Hohai University in Nanjing, China, to participate in the conference.

Climate change is a deciding factor in record high water levels in the Great Lakes being higher than ever before, as Water Institute member and head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, Blair Feltmate discussed with Ben Mulroney, co-hostof CTV’s Your Morning yesterday.

Compelling op-ed co-authored by Water Institute member Prof. Rebecca Rooney from the Department of Biology and Prof. Emeritus David Schindler, University of Alberta, urges Canada to work with Indigenous Peoples

Water Institute member Christine Dow, professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and Canada Research Chair in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics gave an interview yesterday to CBC Radio One 860AM.

JAKARTA IS SINKING, and at the worst possible time. As sea levels creep higher, the coastal megalopolis continues to pump too much water from its underlying aquifers, causing the land to collapse by almost a foot a year in some places.

Roy Brouwer, Executive Director of the Water Institute and Professor of Economics, has been awarded a new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant. The funding was recently announced by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, and will support Brouwer’s project “Payments for wet

Water Institute member and Professor in the Department of Biology, Brian Dixon has received a $2.1 million grant to help address the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance.

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Agricultural farm tour offers a first-hand look at latest phosphorus management research

Water Institute visitor researching ecosystem services of the Amazon rainforest

DFO invests in University of Waterloo mercury study in Frobisher Bay

From its origin in Waterloo in 1993, the International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER) has expanded its reach across the globe

Blame climate change for record water levels in the Great Lakes

Compelling op-ed co-authored by Professors Rebecca Rooney and David Schindler urges Canada to work with Indigenous Peoples to protect biodiversity of lands and oceans

Prof. Christine Dow on melting ice sheets in Greenland

The sea is consuming Jakarta, and its people aren't insured

Water Institute Executive Director awarded SSHRC funding for “Payments for wetland ecosystem services as a nature-based solution to sustainably manage urbanized watersheds" project

Water Institute researcher awarded funds to study antimicrobial resistance

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