As World Water Day approaches on March 22, UBC experts are available to comment on pressing global issues related to water, including:
- Water quality and conservation
- Water use and consumption
- Water security and politics
- Privatization and pricing
- Climate change implications
- Glaciology and hydrology
OKANAGAN CAMPUS
Asst. Prof. Mina Hoorfar
School of Engineering, Okanagan campus
Tel: 250.807.8804
mina.hoorfar@ubc.ca
- Developed a device that checks drinking water quality in real time:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/06/03/is-this-water-safe-to-drink/
Assoc. Prof. Deborah Roberts
School of Engineering, Okanagan campus
Tel: 250.807.8722
Email: deborah.roberts@ubc.ca
- Developing a device that checks water quality that can help prevent illnesses caused by dangerous organisms that can infiltrate treated water systems:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/06/03/is-this-water-safe-to-drink/
VANCOUVER CAMPUS
Assoc. Prof. Karen Bakker, Dept. of Geography
Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology
Director, Program on Water Governance
Tel: 604.822.2663
Email: karen.bakker@ubc.ca
Website: www.watergovernance.ca
- Author of Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis and Eau Canada: The Future of Canada’s Water
- View UBC Water Governance Program’s list of top water issues: http://www.watergovernance.ca/resources/factsheets/
Prof. Madjid Mohseni, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tel: 604.822.0047
Email: mmohseni@chbe.ubc.ca
- Developing drinking water solutions in Canada’s small, rural and First Nations Communities: http://www.chbe.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/mohseni.php
Prof. Don Mavinic, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Tel: 602.822.4752
Email: dsm@civil.ubc.ca
- Developed technology that turns wastewater into valuable fertilizer; studies water treatment, water quality and management: http://bit.ly/cp8VhX
Asst. Prof. Pierre Bérubé, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Tel: 604.822.5665
Email: berube@civil.ubc.ca
- How to treat drinking water and wastewater; trace organic contaminants: http://www.civil.ubc.ca/people/faculty/faculty-berube.php
Prof. Garry Clarke, Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Tel. 604.822.3602
Email: clarke@eos.ubc.ca
- The future of glaciers in western North America, their relationship to the water cycle, the consequences of shrinking glaciers, computer simulations
Prof. Dan Moore
Depts. of Geography and Forest Resources Management
Phone: 604.822.3538
Email: rdmoore@geog.ubc.ca
- Glaciers, climate change, forest cover changes and their influences on streamflow
Assoc. Prof. Younes Alila, Faculty of Forestry
Tel: 604.822.6058
Email: Alila@interchange.ubc.ca
- Land use effects on hydrology, forests and floods, climate change and variability effects on hydrology, hydrology and watershed management
Nancy Knight (Available March 17-18)
UBC Campus and Community Planning
Phone: 604 827-3171
Email: nancy.knight@ubc.ca
- Canada’s largest university water reduction project, which reduced water use in UBC academic buildings by 30 per cent and helped reduce annual energy costs by $2.6 million
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