Water Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

September 30, 2022

A Golden Sustainable IDEA

Even if you are just lounging around the house, dieticians recommend drinking two litres of water each day, or even more. But if you are sweating out a hike in the hot sun, you will... More

February 10, 2020

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

February 5, 2020

Piloting Unique Approach to Wildlife Conservation

The Morris Island Conservation Area is only about an hour’s drive west of Ottawa, but on a brilliant autumn morning, the city feels a world away. The 47-hectare mix of forested woodlands and wetlands is... More

May 27, 2019

Climate Change Warriors

A dozen years ago, after a major oil deposit was discovered in western Ghana, the twin cities that are the region’s capital and largest urban centre started to grow rapidly. People flocked to Sekondi-Takoradi from... More

April 2, 2019

Women and Water

Earth’s surface is mostly water, but only a small fraction of that water is fresh, and most of that fraction is locked away in alpine glaciers, polar ice caps and remote lakes. Less than .007... More

February 21, 2018

Winning Designs Solve Household Problems

A filtration device that can provide clean drinking water in remote communities and a childproof marijuana storage container designed by two Carleton University students have taken the top two prizes at a major international student... More