Research • Policy • Education • Action

The POLIS Water Sustainability Project is an action-based research group at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies. We develop cutting-edge research and share solutions, best practices, and opportunities for reform with those working on the ground (and in the water). This includes communities, experts, governments at all levels (local, Indigenous, provincial, federal), and non-governmental and Indigenous organizations. By combining practical research with community action, we demonstrate the powerful potential of new governance approaches and work to drive innovative law reform to generate change towards a sustainable and secure freshwater future. Learn more >

 

Research & Publications

  • October 17th, 2025

    POLIS Response to Proposed Changes to Provincial Natural Resource Permitting

  • September 2nd, 2025

    Barriers and opportunities for the effective management of cumulative effects in salmon ecosystems in British Columbia, Canada

  • March 22nd, 2025

    Ripples 2025: An Arts Zine Created by Youth

Events & Webinars

  • September 25th, 2025

    Ensuring the Flow: Water Security for Canada and the World

  • September 3rd, 2025

    International Elk-Kootenai/y Watershed Study Board Draft Interim Status Report Webinar

  • July 21st, 2025

    Ecological Border Management Summer Institute

In the News

  • October 22nd, 2025

    Water security a matter of national security

  • August 20th, 2025

    Watershed Board wraps up summer listening sessions

  • July 16th, 2025

    Elk-Kootenai/y watershed study board holds session to listen to public perspective

Project Updates

  • October 9th, 2025

    Water Security for Canada and the World

  • July 15th, 2025

    Reconciling with Water: (Re)imagining and (Re)storying our Relations to Water

  • July 14th, 2025

    Youth Arts Zine Explores Stories Told By Ice

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