Archives: Water Conversations

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

October 7, 2019: Water Conversations with Professor Jay Drydyk

Meet Professor Jay Drydyk for a thought-provoking discussion on Dams, Displacement & Development Ethics. When: October 7, 2019 at 12pm to 1pm Where: MacKenzie Building, Rm 3444 Discussion Overview: Large dams almost inevitably displace communities and force them to resettle elsewhere. Forced resettlement can be enormously harmful; one... More

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Navigating through Murky Waters: Applications of Palaeolimnology for Understanding Water Quality Change in Lakes

Our September speaker is Dr. Helen Roe from the Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, who is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment and Director of the Queen鈥檚 University Environmental Change Research Cluster. Her talk will review recent advances in palaeolimnology and will provide examples from... More

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Water Conversations with Nadia Springle: Water governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effectiveness of decentralization policy in expanding water access in Ghana & Tanzania

Water has increasingly become a central theme in global development discourse. Scholars have tied access to safe drinking water to a growing list of development criteria, including health, education, income generation and gender equality. There has also been a shift in the way the issue of water access and water security is discussed. Whereas... More

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Water Conversations with Paul Villeneuve: Does living near water and greenness impact the mortality of Canadian urbanites? Findings from the Canadian Census Cohort

Half of the world population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to increase rapidly over the coming years. Urban living is associated with higher disease rates, and, conversely, living near green spaces has been shown to yield positive health benefits. For the seventh installment of the Global Water Institute鈥檚 鈥淲ater... More

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Water Conversations with Anteneh Belayneh: Analyzing Water Allocation and water markets in Southern Alberta

For the sixth installment of the Global Water Institute鈥檚 informal talk series, Water Conversations, we heard from Public Policy and Administration PhD candidate Anteneh Belayneh, who began his research into water allocation and water markets in Southern Alberta in 2014.                    ... More

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Water Conversations with Tim Patterson: Who Killed Frame Lake? A Precautionary Tale for Urban Planners

For the fifth installment of the Global Water Institute鈥檚 talk series, Water Conversations, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Tim Patterson, paleolimnologist and professor of Earth Sciences at 杏吧原创 University. Dr. Patterson has been working in the Northwest Territories for more than a decade. Today, he shared with us his recent work... More

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Water Conversations with Steven Cooke: On the State of Freshwater Fish and Fisheries: Finding a Future for the Forgotten

For the fourth installment of the Global Water Institute鈥檚 informal talk series, Water Conversations, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Steven Cooke of the 杏吧原创 Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science on his research into the state, use, and regulation of inland fisheries. Dr. Cooke is the Canada Research Chair... More

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Water Conversations with Karen Lawford: Water, Indigenous Women’s Health, and Environmental Violence

For the third installment of the GWI鈥檚 Water Conversations series, we heard from Karen Lawford, Aboriginal midwife and instructor of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at 杏吧原创 University, on the topic of water, indigenous women鈥檚 health, and environmental violence in Canada. Dr. Lawford hosted an open-ended discussion, inviting attendees to... More

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Dr. Fred Michel Environmental Science Seminar Series: Direct and indirect effects of 鈥渢he pill鈥� in aquatic food webs, with Dr. Karen Kidd

Dr. Karen Kidd is a prominent ecotoxicologist specializing in the effects of human activities on aquatic ecosystems. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Chemical Contamination of Food Webs (Tier I) and was recently named Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health. She is a professor in the Department of Biology and School of Geography... More

Monday, November 20, 2017

Water Conversations with Tag Elkhazin: Overview of International Law and Cooperative Agreements on Cross Boundary Rivers

Water bodies have little concern for national borders - there are 263 transboundary lake and river basins around the world, covering nearly half of the Earth鈥檚 surface. A total of 148 nations include territory within one or more international basins. With the human population and its demand for freshwater growing, and the global supply... More

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Water Conversations with Richard Amos: Managing groundwater contamination in the resource development industry

Today we had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Richard Amos describe his research on managing groundwater contaminants in the resource development industry for our first ever Global Water Institute 鈥淲ater Conversations鈥� event. Dr. Richard Amos presents his research on October 26th, 2017. Photo credit: Muhammad Salam. Dr. Amos is a professor of Earth... More

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