Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves and nine per cent of the world’s renewable freshwater resources. However, there is an urgent need for better freshwater governance in Canada.
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New Zealanders pay the costs of poor environmental and infrastructural governance, but have little opportunity to influence policy in the first place. Here’s how that could change.
The world’s first futures market for water launched in California in December. Two commodities experts explain how it works, what the potential problems are and why there’s no reason to freak out.
With fewer people commuting, home water use changed radically overnight in March 2020.
Wetlands in drylands seem impossible, but their benefits to people and wildlife are very real.
The projected loss of water storage on land as global temperatures rise is especially alarming in the Southern Hemisphere – and in parts of the US.
A recent US study found tyre chemicals were polluting rivers and poisoning migratory salmon.
Flooding isn’t always destructive – it can be part of our toolkit for restoring ecosystems.
To continue to sustain or grow populations — and economies — more is going to have to be done with the same amount of water, or even less.
The ghosts of our industrial and agricultural past continue to haunt freshwater ecosystems today.
New regulations will allow oilsands companies to release 1.3 trillion litres of liquid waste into the Athabasca River in 2022. A new technology could clean the wastewater before it’s let go.
A long-awaited NZ$700 million package to clean up New Zealand’s rivers and lakes has disappointed some of the government’s expert advisers – especially a delay on setting clear pollution limits.
Population growth and attendant human activities are destroying a freshwater ecosystem.
Hundreds of thousands of lakes, rivers and streams in the Arctic exist only because of the permafrost that lies beneath them. The warming Arctic threatens to change that.
The Great Lakes contain reservoirs of legacy contaminants, mostly in their sediments, that are vulnerable to resuspension.
The salt in the sea has built up over billions of years – but it wouldn’t have got there without freshwater rivers and streams.
Entire populations of prawn ‘super-females’ are now being commercially distributed. The science behind this continues to advance and could have a far-reaching impact on both humans and animals.
Good news – underground aquifers could be a reliable source of drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa even as the climate warms.
The brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri kills 97% of its victims, and infections are almost impossible to diagnose quickly. Here is how it kills.
Freshwater fish are suffering as drought becomes more common and severe. Whether they survive will depend on how governments manage rivers and lakes, and on taking action against climate change.
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Associate Professor, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Canada Research Chair & Professor, Carleton University
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Professor of Hydrogeology, UCL
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Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
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Post-doctoral researcher, Charles Sturt University
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Research fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer and quantitative ecologist, The University of Melbourne
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate professor in ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Morgan Foundation Senior Research Fellow in Freshwater Ecology and Environmental Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Honorary Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Professor - Australian Rivers Institute, and Dean - Research Infrastructure, Griffith University
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Research Leader (Catchments to Coast), Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University
