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Water in the News

01/05/2026 | The U.S. is slashing funding that protects our water. Now, a diplomatic storm is brewing

08/03/2025 | Great Lakes Water Levels Slip as Summer Heat Drains Shoreline Access

06/23/2025 | McMaster Professor Emeritus Dr. Dawn Martin-Hill brings Indigenous voices and knowledges to discussions on global sustainability and governance at 2025 Together | Ensemble conference on Collective Action for a Sustainable Future

06/13/2025 | In photos: A tribute to Provost Susan Tighe

06/04/2025 | The Great Lakes are in an extreme new era

05/05/2025 | Community Connections: Supporting stewardship in Niagara’s natural spaces

04/22/2025 | Everything You Need to Know About Earth Day 2025

04/20/2025 | C21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte: Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility

04/09/2025 | Great Lakes Water Levels 2025 – Big Drops, Big Impacts Across Michigan

04/09/2025 | Exclusive: Water looms as new front in Mexico's trade negotiations with the US

03/25/2025 | Canada’s Next PM Will Need to Be ‘Creative’ to Meet Climate Targets, Experts Say

03/21/2025 | Community submissions sought for World Water Day celebration

03/11/2025 | Forget tariffs, Trump may be targeting the Great Lakes and Canada’s freshwater next

02/21/2025 | Poilievre’s proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire

02/01/2025 | Urgent Climate Adaptation Initiatives Receive Major Funding

01/31/2025 | Bruce Water Policy fellows, leaders, and students address critical global freshwater issues

12/19/2024 | Course-based degree option opens new door to sustainability grad studies

12/17/2024 | $4M boost for University of Michigan’s environmental justice hub

11/29/2024 | IN THE NEWS: Canada Post strike continues, sports betting and extracting copper from algae

11/24/2024 | Native communities fighting climate change through gardening

11/21/2024 | Local water advocates hail closure of southern Ontario bottling plant as a win for conservation

11/15/2024 | MIRI Research Day showcases powerhouse Indigenous scholarship

11/13/2024 | Bottled water giant BlueTriton — formerly Nestlé — closing Ontario operations

11/12/2024 | U.S. And Mexico Amend Water Treaty To Aid South Texas Farmers Amid Drought

10/23/2024 | RESEARCH RETROSPECTIVE: Caring for the Earth

10/21/2024 | A creek runs through it: Students help set up new outdoor teaching and research lab

10/15/2024 | Summit in Australia urges science to do more to embrace First Nations climate knowledge

10/14/2024 | Water science makes a splash with Red Lake area students

10/3/2024 | Meeting the needs of Canada’s remote communities the focus of W Booth School’s Opportunity Marketplace

9/29/2024 | This Kitchener, Ont., church uses portion of its budget for Indigenous reparations for 'harm done'

8/19/2024 | When the River Runs Dry

6/27/2024 | The US and Mexico are in conflict over the Rio Grande and Colorado River

6/19/2024 | Estimates, First Nations drinking water on the agenda

6/17/2024 | A water war is looming between Mexico and the U.S. Neither side will win.

10/27/2023 | New University of Michigan led initiative expands climate research across borders

9/21/2023 | Climate impacts to boundary waters like the Great Lakes focus of new U-M center

9/18/2023 | NSF, international partners, invest $76.4 million in inaugural Global Centers Competition awards

9/18/2023 | NSF and Partners Allocate $76.4M in Global Centers Awards