Projects
Water Security
In 2008, the Canadian Water Network (CWN) awarded the UBC Program on Water Governance (PoWG) a four-year grant to lead a team of researchers from five Canadian universities on a project to improve water security in Canada
US-Canada Transboundary Water
Water remains a high priority for many nations because of its basic importance as a public good and its capacity to flow across, or serve as, political boundaries. With more than 250 river basins - or approximately 45% of the world's land surface - sharing two or more political borders (Wolf et al, 1999), transboundary water governance requires constant attention in the global arena.
Water & Development
Lack of access to clean water supply is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, and this is an increasingly acute problem for residents of rapidly growing, large cities. An estimated one billion people around the world lack access to sufficient supplies of clean water, and an increasing proportion of those live in cities – particularly large, rapidly growing ‘mega-cities’ of the South.
