The University of Saskatchewan is launching a first-of-its-kind in North America master’s degree program focusing on water security issues.
The course will help students develop the expertise to tackle complex issues about water availability and quality.
Assistant professor Andrew Ireson says the environment is changing, causing flooding and drought.
“First of all we would be neutral really but we would be trying to balance the interests of all of the stakeholders really,” says Ireson. “I mean we have to be protecting our environment and industry has to know we have to protect our environment, if we don’t than nothing we do is sustainable.”
Applications will be accepted until January with the first class beginning in September of 2016.