/channels/taxonomy/term/14279/all en /channels/channels/news/water-advisories-lifted-two-mcgill-buildings-349539 <p>Dear members of the �鶹Լ�� community,</p> <p>Following a new round of testing since our <a href="/facilities/channels/news/water-advisory-issued-six-mcgill-buildings-349491">previous message</a> about water advisories being issued for six �鶹Լ�� buildings, two of the water advisories that had been put in place have been lifted.</p> <p><b>It is now safe to drink the water in the following buildings:</b></p> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:23:00 +0000 webfull 191049 at /channels /channels/channels/news/working-water-related-research-become-member-brace-water-centre-346814 <p>The Brace Water Centre (Brace) welcomes members from the �鶹Լ�� research community who are working on water-related issues. Membership is open to faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, research associates and graduate students. </p> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:49:15 +0000 webfull 188041 at /channels /channels/channels/event/safeguarding-provision-drinking-water-changing-climate-343356 <p><strong>Date: Wednesday, November 23th 2022 | Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30pm| Macdonald Engineering Building RM: 267</strong> </p> <p><em>*The session will also be accessible via zoom</em></p> Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:29:30 +0000 webfull 184331 at /channels /channels/channels/news/seawater-memory-keeper-energy-source-and-pollution-tracking-342845 <h6><img alt="Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia" src="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/seawater-bottled.png" style="width:60%" /><br /><i>Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid</i></h6> <h2>What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?</h2> Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:46:19 +0000 webfull 183858 at /channels /channels/channels/event/nrs-invited-seminar-series-climate-change-and-source-water-quality-334285 <p>Drinking water systems are vulnerable to events such as floods, droughts and intense storms that wash in contaminants to surface water.</p> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:23:18 +0000 webfull 174114 at /channels /channels/channels/event/food-thought-how-water-use-agriculture-has-changed-over-decades-332858 <p>Our annual Food for Thought Public Lecture Series is in its 22nd season of bringing timely science topics to the community: our neighbours, alumni, students, staff and faculty!</p> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:21:06 +0000 webfull 172539 at /channels /channels/channels/news/government-canada-funds-mcgill-research-contaminants-aquatic-ecosystems-330068 <p><em>Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that are microscopic and up to 5 millimetres in size. �鶹Լ�� research project aims to provide an understanding of how these contaminants end up in Canadian aquatic environments and what impacts they have. </em></p> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:18:28 +0000 webfull 169485 at /channels /channels/channels/news/rural-alaskans-struggle-access-and-afford-water-329963 <p>Water scarcity in rural Alaska is not a new problem, but the situation is getting worse with climate change. Lasting solutions must encourage the use of alternative water supplies like rainwater catchment and grey water recycling. They must also address the affordability of water related to household income, say researchers from �鶹Լ��.</p> Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:08:01 +0000 webfull 169418 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-garner-over-7m-sshrc-funding-322679 <p>20 �鶹Լ�� researchers receive funding from SSHRC through Partnership Program Grants, Partnership Development Grants, and Postdoctoral Fellowships</p> <p>The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its fall 2019 round of Partnership Grants, including two �鶹Լ��-led projects, totalling $5 million. SSHRC also unveiled the recipients of the round’s Partnership Development Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships, in which 18 �鶹Լ�� applicants received over $2 million in funding.</p> Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:13:47 +0000 webfull 161257 at /channels /channels/channels/news/isid-policy-paper-preparing-looming-water-crisis-lessons-learned-covid-19-middle-east-and-north-322050 <p>The challenge of water security is growing globally. Achieving and sustaining water security, in both developed and developing countries, is likely to increase in complexity and priority as climate change intensifies, but also as the demands of economic growth increase. For most MENA countries that were already facing water security and major social, health and economic challenges before COVID-19, this additional pressure is particularly excruciating. Like COVID-19 and climate change, water scarcity in MENA is a global problem that requires collective action.</p> Wed, 06 May 2020 14:17:51 +0000 webfull 160564 at /channels /channels/channels/news/new-isid-policy-brief-water-key-driver-sustainable-growth-303801 <p>Why is access to water a crucial issue in the Middle East and North Africa?  Because water matters for people, water matters for the economy, water matters for the environment, and water matters for equality.   In ISID's most recent policy brief, Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir discusses this issue from a water-security perspective.  Read it online now!</p> Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:24:02 +0000 webfull 156904 at /channels /channels/channels/news/climate-change-threatens-crops-water-billions-around-globe-301808 <p>Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk.</p> <p>The results, published Thursday in the journal <em><strong>Science</strong></em>, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world.</p> <p>“There’s a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,” said <strong>Elena Bennett</strong> [NRS], who studies ecological systems at �鶹Լ�� and is one of the paper’s 21 co-authors.</p> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:50:54 +0000 webfull 154560 at /channels /channels/channels/news/gare-la-transmission-de-maladies-par-leau-301459 <p>Lorsqu’une contamination bactérienne se déclare à proximité d’une ferme, il faut cibler le plus rapidement possible les élevages problématiques puisque certaines souches peuvent parfois infecter l’homme. L’objectif est de mettre en place des barrières naturelles qui empêcheront les ruissellements provenant de ces fermes de se retrouver dans l’eau potable environnante.</p> Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:38:33 +0000 webfull 154138 at /channels /channels/channels/news/chandra-madramootoo-receives-2019-world-irrigation-and-drainage-prize-300620 <p>Professor <strong>Chandra Madramootoo</strong> is the recipient of the <strong>2019 World Irrigation and Drainage Prize</strong>. During the Opening Ceremony of the World Irrigation Forum on September 02 in Bali, H.E. Minister Basuki Hadimulyono, Minister for Water Resources and Public Works of Indonesia, and H.E.</p> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:46:32 +0000 webfull 153121 at /channels /channels/channels/news/un-bateau-robot-pour-scanner-la-sante-des-lacs-299781 <p>Imaginez un bateau robotisé équipé de capteurs qui sillonne les plans d’eau pour récolter des données sur la température, le pH, l’oxygène dissous et les contaminants. Grâce à la transmission d’un signal acoustique, ces données s’affichent en temps réel sur une carte qui permet de connaître la distribution et la dynamique des polluants, à des millions d’emplacements.</p> Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:04:34 +0000 webfull 152085 at /channels