The below was written by Queen Elizabeth Scholar, Roxanne Springer
A Waterloo startup has developed a solution for keeping microfibre pollutants out of our water
When tossing in a load of laundry most of us have no idea that other people may unwittingly swallow tiny pieces of our yoga pants or bath towels.
February 13, 2019
Interview conducted by co-President of SAID, Zack Ahmed Attended and transcribed by Marketing & Communications Director of SAID, Carissa Muller
2018 Climate Change and You submissions
Growing up Mark Ranjram, PhD candidate in Waterloo’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, felt the way many young children today feel when it comes to global issues: There isn’t anything I can do to help solve these problems. Too many children believe they don’t have a voice or a seat at the table when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change. This is something Mark is trying to change through his community-outreach initiative Climate Change and You.
Canadian homeowners do not have the information they need to know if they should buy flood insurance leaving them exposed to significant financial risk.
A recent study from the University of Waterloo found flood mapping information in Canada was inadequate, incomplete, hard to locate and varied widely from province-to-province.
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has announced funding for a Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation project under their Climate Change Adaptation Program. Water Institute member and professor Derek Robinson, from the Waterloo's Department of Geography and Environmental Management, is a co-applicant on the grant.
The Partners for Action (P4A) network at The University of Waterloo, Faculty of Environment, co-led by Water Institute member Jason Thistlethwaite, has received renewed funding from The Co-operators Group Ltd. The $600,000 will support P4A's efforts to facilitate increased risk awareness, enhance cross-sector coll
Three University of Waterloo Engineering students from the Conrad Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program embarked on a mission in 2018, to help provide safe drinking water to those who need it most.
Food security is an urgent and growing concern for Indigenous populations in Canada. Environmental change in aquatic ecosystems can impact the health of fish and the communities that rely on those fish in many ways. Some of those ways can involve exposure to contaminants like mercury.
