April 10, 2012: Another Drop: Peter Sale
January 17, 2012 - 7:42 am
Hamilton, ON Website: Click here.
Categories: Events
Items tagged: UNU-INWEH
Items Found: 9
March 6, 2012: Another Drop: Kevin O’Brien
January 17, 2012 - 7:41 am
Hamilton, ON Website: Click here.
Categories: Events
February 7, 2012: Another Drop: Raul Ponce-Hernandez
January 17, 2012 - 7:40 am
Hamilton, ON Website: Click here. UNU-INWEH’s Another Drop lecture features Dr. Raul Ponce-Hernandez, Associate Professor, Trent University. Raul will be discussing Measuring the Degradation of Ecosystem Health Caused by Climate Change. The lecture will be held at 7:00pm in room 1A at McMaster...
Categories: Events
January 17, 2012: Science and Politics of Climate Change
January 2, 2012 - 3:06 pm
Hamilton, ON Website: Click here (pdf).
Categories: Events
Interview: Sarah Dickin
November 28, 2011 - 5:54 pm
Sarah Dickin is a graduate student in the school of geography and earth sciences at McMaster University, and part of the Water Without Borders student program at the United Nations University (UNU). Her research involves developing a tool to assess vulnerability to water-related hazards based on environmental...
Categories: Features
Connecting Water Resources: Day One
March 1, 2011 - 11:41 am
An excellent, neuron-firing launch to CWN's Connecting Water Resources conference this morning. First up, UNU-INWEH's Dr. Zafar Adeel addressed Canada's role in the global water crises, highlighting some of the main issues--drinking water supply and sanitation, shrinking water resources, and degrading...
Categories: Blog
October 21, 2010: Canada’s Role in the Global Water Crisis: Coping with Emerging International Threats
October 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Oakville, ON Website: Click here. Email: bwylie@globalserve.net World leaders assembled in New York City two weeks ago vowing to accelerate progress on the eight Millennium Development Goals that the United Nations established 10 years ago to address such issues as extreme poverty and hunger...
Categories: Events
September 21, 2010: IWA Industry Forum: Water Technology Cooperation and Capacity Building
August 27, 2010 - 8:39 am
Montreal, QC Website: Click here. Water scarcity and contamination limit economic development. Although this has led to implementation of water reduction measures and tighter regulations for protection of water resources in many countries, it is expected that water demand - and thus competition...
Categories: Events
A Nice Cold Drink
March 16, 2010 - 9:57 am
Conventional technologies for drinking water treatment are no longer considered adequate for ensuring the delivery of potable water to communities. This is particularly true in smaller, more remote communities, where the infrastructure for treatment of both drinking water and wastewater may be limited...
Categories: Features
