Diving into policy: Water management in Ontario and beyond

Canada is lucky to border on the Great lakes, which hold about 20% of the world’s freshwater. This show focuses on the importance of good policies to manage our water and delve into some of the environmental and policy challenges attached.

Guest Biographies:

Dr George Arhonditsis is currently the Chair of the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for Ecological Informatics, and Associated Editor for the journals Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management, and Water. He has been the Director of the Ecological Modelling Laboratory, University of Toronto Scarborough, for nearly fifteen years. His research philosophy promotes a critical approach to modeling by introducing novel uncertainty analysis techniques to improve our understanding or offer pragmatic solutions to a wide range of environmental problems. Using watershed, aquatic ecosystem, population, and socioeconomic models, his research has been used to assist environmental management and to guide the policy-making process in a wide range of systems worldwide

Dr. Krantzberg is a Professor and Program lead for the Masters in Engineering and Public Policy Program in the Walter G Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University. Gail completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in environmental science and freshwaters. She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Coordinator of Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on Great Lakes. In her tenure there she was intensely engaged in binational Great Lakes science and policy venue,  president of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, Board Member of numerous Water Related nonprofits, member of the International Joint Commission’s Water Quality Board, Sediment Priority Action Committee, Indicators Implementation Task Force, and is currently . Canadian Co-Chair of the IJC's Science Advisory Board Science Priority Committee. Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the Joint Commission from 2001 to 2005. In 2007, she was appointed as an adjunct faculty member of the United Nations University Institute for Water and Environmental Health and participated in the twinning of the Laurentian and African Great Lakes (principally Lake Victoria).

Producers:

Jordan Egan - Junior Producer

Roberto Fusciardi - Junior Producer

Antoine Fougere-Ramsamooj - Junior Producer