Over the past decade, leading McMaster researchers have been teaming up with communities in Hamilton and beyond to tackle local water issues through a number of innovative projects funded by the RBC Blue Water Foundation.
As unlikely as it may sound, a new approach for fighting the destruction of wildfires in Canada’s boreal region may lie in unassuming wetlands packed with soaking wet layers of peat and topped with living moss.
For World Water Week (November 20-23, 2018) we're highlighting some of the water research that's happening at Mac. Today, McMaster researcher Mike Waddington's Boreal Water Futures project, which works to understand the changes occurring in Canada’s vast Boreal region to help decision-makers better predict, plan for, and manage water-related risks.