Center for Water Research

You are warmly invited to the Ninth Annual Symposium on Water in Israel, the Middle East, and Africa, hosted by the Northwestern Center for Water Research, Israel Innovation Project, and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, in collaboration with the Institute for Policy Research. This year’s symposium features a panel discussion exploring “The Value of Experiential

You’re invited to take part in the Student Water Jamboree—an exciting event dedicated to exploring how our work and interests intersect with water. Whether your research focuses directly on water, like wastewater resource recovery, or more indirectly, like the hydration of structural materials, water likely plays a bigger role than you think! This is a

Interdisciplinary event united faculty to tackle water challenges and sustainability. Read more in Brian Sandalow’s piece here.

The Earth and Planetary Sciences Department are happy to announce that Dr. Frank Corsetti (Chair and Professor of Earth Science at USC) will be presenting his talk Hanging around Hot Springs to Gain Insight into Life on Early Earth, or “Dear Reviewer 2, I am Aware the Proterozoic Ocean Was Not a Hot Spring”. 

Abstract The engineers who manage Mexico City’s vast combined sewer and drainage infrastructures are constantly improvising new ways to cajole water to flow through the crumbling system even as the city sinks due to anthropogenic land subsidence. Their labor to maintain the system amid decades of deferred maintenance and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions