Mr. B????(C)langer will use the award to further examine water issues in urban settings, such as the growing demand for water, the wasting of water, water governance and pollution. He notes that ?EUR??,,????'??surface and groundwater resources (are) under severe stress.”

He will travel to three critical watershed regions: the Rhine-Meuse delta plain in the Netherlands; the Wasia aquifer in Saudi Arabia; and the Yangtze River. His interest is to investigate how the field of landscape architecture can contribute to watershed change.

Pierre B????(C)langer is a landscape architect and associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. He completed graduate studies for his MLA at Harvard University?EUR??,,????'???s Graduate School of Design, where he received the Janet Darling Webel and Norman T. Newton prizes in design. He previously worked as a project manager for Brinkman & Associates, Canada?EUR??,,????'???s largest reforestation and bio-engineering contractor.