News
Keep Habitat Protection in the Federal Fisheries Act
The Fisheries Act is Canada’s strongest environmental law, mainly because it prohibits what’s known as HADD – “the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat”. So when the government plans to dismantle this protection, it’s time for Canadians to say they have HADD enough. WWF-Canada is campaigning to keep the pressure up and stop [...]
New Book: The Right to Water
New Book: The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles, Edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus. Earthscan (Taylor and Francis), UK, 2011 The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced [...]
Karen promoted to Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Bakker who was promoted to full Professor this summer; confirmation of her high standing at UBC.
PoWG Announcement
It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr Leila Harris as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance. Dr Harris brings a wealth of international, interdisciplinary research experience on water, gender, and the environment. We look forward to her playing a leading role in the Program’s international work. Welcome, Leila! ————————— Leila [...]
Urban Affairs Association Annual Book Award
Karen Bakker’s latest book “Privatizing Water: Governance failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis” recently was awarded the 2011 Urban Affairs Association Annual Book Award (honourable mention)
Karen awarded “Top 40 Under 40″
In April 2011, Karen Bakker was awarded one of the Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 awards – she is one of the only social scientists ever to receive this award.
Groundwater issues in BC – latest blog by Linda Nowlan
Read Linda Nowlan’s latest blog on groundwater issues in BC.
World Water Day 2011
Dr. Karen Bakker made several media appearances to mark UN World Water Day (March 22nd) 2011: Radio Canada: Sunday 20th March – Television interview (in French) CKNW “The World Today” hosted by Jon McComb: Friday 18th March 4:14-4:20pm She was also cited in Tom Axworthy’s opinion piece in the Toronto Star (published 21st March).
New Look PoWG Website
Welcome to the new look Program on Water Governance website. We hope you find this new format easier to use. Along with updated content, new added features include ‘search’ function, automatic newsletter subscribe button, RSS feeds and a cleaner look. Enjoy!
New Water Security Publications
We have recently published two policy reports and submitted three journal articles related to our water security project research. These can be downloaded for free from our publications page.
