The Institute for Water Business
The Institute for Water Business is a collaborative space facilitating transdisciplinary learning, research, and outreach with a focus on engaging, educating, and empowering stakeholders globally. It actively disseminates knowledge through events and programs, fostering alliances between students, faculty, businesses, governments, and civil society. The institute also offers real and virtual spaces for open information exchange, dialogue, and collaboration on freshwater challenges, reflecting its commitment to an inclusive and dynamic environment for collective efforts in addressing complex water-related issues.
- Environmental Restoration in Marinette Wisconsin - This study examined and evaluates the benefits and challenges of environemntal restoration, including its effect on environmental justice and sustainable development.
- Fund for Lake Michigan - Based on FERC findings, the Fund for Lake Michigan has had a substantial and concrete impact on the economy by adding 1,758 jobs, 63 million dollars in labor income, and 216 million dollars in economic output from Spring 2011 to Fall 2020.
- The Blue Green Corridor - Establishing the Intersection between Economic Growth and Environmental Design - This study evaluates the economic impact of a blue/green corridor along the Chicago River.
- Tainter Lake and Lake Menomin - The Impact of Diminshing Water Quality on Value - Tainter and Menomin both suffer from severe and often toxic Blue Green Algae blooms driven by high watershed loading of nutrients. In consideration of this issue, it is the goal of this analysis to determine whether the value of the lake property has kept pace with properties on competing lakes within the same market.
The Integrated Science and Business major is a unique program that blends a chosen area of science with courses from the general management major. Students may focus on biology, chemistry, geography, geology, or physics, while courses from the management curriculum provide insight into business operations. Whether they practice in their field of science or work in managerial or strategic roles in scientific companies, graduates have the opportunity to explore numerous career paths.
Students can add a water emphasis to this major, which helps prepare graduates for careers in water research, technology, and sustainability, as well as manufacturing and business operations. Water scarcity, pollution, climate change, and other problematic water trends pose major challenges to businesses. Organizations are increasingly recognizing water as natural capital and scrutinizing water-related risks. Understanding how businesses use water, what the costs are and how to reduce them, and where the value in water is and how to preserve it are increasingly desired skills.
The Institute for Water Business at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
College of Business and Economics
Hyland Hall, Room 4302A
800 W. Main Street
Whitewater, WI 53190
(262) 472-5584