As climate change intensifies, managing water systems from extreme floods and droughts to groundwater sustainability has become one of the most urgent environmental challenges facing communities worldwide, with direct consequences for public safety, food systems and economic stability.
As climate change intensifies, managing water systems from extreme floods and droughts to groundwater sustainability has become one of the most urgent environmental challenges facing communities worldwide, with direct consequences for public safety, food systems and economic stability. Meeting these challenges require tools that can predict how water moves through landscapes long before impacts are felt.
That forward-looking approach is the focus of Aquanty Inc., a University of Waterloo spin-off translating decades of Waterloo-based research into advanced hydrologic modelling and real-time forecasting technologies used by governments, researchers and industry locally and globally. Designed to support water and climate resilience, Aquanty’s tools help communities move from reactive response to proactive planning by turning complex data into real-time decision support.
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Aquanty has published research on hydro-climatic modelling of Canadian river basins, including the Grand River watershed (pictured), predicting watershed hydrologic response under a range of climate change scenarios. (Photo credit: Aquanty)
