Feature Stories

Watershed researchers receive $2.4 million boost from CWN

Funds used to launch innovative end user-led environmental monitoring programs
A shift from a researcher-driven push to end user-articulated pull for tangible project impacts

The Blue Economy Initiative website is live!

The Blue Economy Initiative aims to shed light on the connection between water and our economy.
First report released: Major new study of the contribution of water to the Canadian economy

Students and young professionals photo/video contest winners

Photo and video winners announced!
CWN thanks everyone who participated in our first-ever students and young professionals photo/video contest.

Serendipitous CWN arsenic study helps local community

Profiled — Dr. William Cullen, a CWN researcher who was born to study the elements

Regional watershed groups selected as inaugural nodes within Canadian Watershed Research Consortium

Through its Canadian Watershed Research Consortium, CWN has taken end-user engagement a step further.

Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, CWN and RBC Blue Water Project team up for Blue Economy Initiative

Informing Canadians and decision-makers about the economic benefits of protecting Canada’s fresh water.

Canada to lead amid looming world water shortages and more flooding

[ February 28, 2011 7:00 pm to March 3, 2011 7:00 pm. ] Experts and stakeholders convene in Ottawa for Connecting Water Resources 2011 to share findings, tools and ideas to manage water in uncertain future

Water Challenges and Solutions in First Nations Communities

A recently published report summarizing major findings from a two-day workshop entitled Sharing Water Challenges and Solutions: Experiences of First Nations Communities.

Canada’s Waterscapes: National Lecture Series — Dr. Graham Gagnon

[ December 1, 2010; 10:00 pm; ] Why Study Water? Turning a Potential Crisis into Opportunity — On December 1, 2010 at 7 p.m., come hear Dr. Graham Gagnon talk at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax.

Workshop on Knowledge Translation and Brokering

[ October 20, 2010; ]

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Special Workshop on Knowledge Translation and Brokering, Hyatt Regency Montréal, Québec

A knowledge-exchange and networking event organized by Environment Canada’s Science and Technology Liaison, ResearchImpact, the Canadian Water Network, and collaborating partners York University, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the British High Commission, under the [...]