Projects - Centre for Human Rights Research

Storyteller-in-Residence

Taylor Galvin joins the Just Waters team as Storyteller-in-Residence– using her social media platform to share stories from Kookum Nameo (Grandmother Sturgeon), weenibikiisaygaygun (Lake Winnipeg), our river relatives and more.

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Open Education Resource

Funded by the University of Manitoba’s Advance Open Ed initiative, this open education resource (OER) will be a wide-ranging, visually rich collection of material that puts water in the centre of human and more-than-human life. In June 2025, a workshop led by The Environmental Storytelling Studio supported contributors in increasing the appeal and accessibility of their writing.

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The Last Drop Water Researchers Speaker Series

If you have an interest in water sustainability issues including drinking water and sanitation, water governance, and international climate issues, this speaker series is for you!

Head to the Just Waters Events page for upcoming webinars.

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Water Justice is Menstruation Justice

The Centre for Human Rights Research, Just Waters, and Dr. Lisa Smith (Douglas College) are collaborating to develop an external funding application for a project exploring the intersection of water justice and menstruation justice in Canada and the United States, an area that has received scant attention in the literature.

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