Internships
The 13-credit internship is a central feature of this Master’s program. The internship may be done in collaboration with a former employer or other contact the student may have. Alternatively, the internship coordinator will aid the student in finding an internship. The internship requires a student to work with, for example, a consulting firm or other government or NGO organization. Students are supervised by both the host organization and an academic supervisor from McGill. The related 6-credit project research paper takes the internship work and explores it in a more holistic manner.
These internships may be either paid or unpaid, and are available globally. To date, students have completed internships all over the world at organizations such as:
- Watershed organizations (e.g. Du Chene Watershed Organization)
- NGOs (Winrock International)
- Water utilities (e.g., City of Montreal)
- Water resources engineering consulting firms (e.g. CH2M-HILL, SNC-Lavalin)
- Universities (e.g., Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University)
- Provincial and federal government agencies (e.g., International Joint Commission, Environment Canada)
- International institutions (UNESCO)
Examples of Internship Organizations
Canada & Quebec
- EXP
- Aecom
- AGIR Pour La Diable
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- AMEC
- Assembly of First Nations
- Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement du Québec (BAPE)
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Canadian Water Network
- Canadian Water Resources Association
- Centre of Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology
- Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
- Concordia University
- Commission for Environmental Cooperation
- Environment Canada
- Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW)
- Government of BC
- Institut de Recherche et de developpement en agroenvironnement
- International Joint Commission – Canadian Section Office
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
- Natural Resources Canada
- Nature Connection
- National Water Research Institute
- Ouranos
- Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
- UNU-INWEH UN Think Tank on Water
- Walkerton Clean Water Centra
- Westhoff Engineering Resources, Inc.
- Williams Engineering Canada
- WWF Canada
- SNC Lavalin
United States
- American Rivers Home
- Center for Watershed Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Friends of the Earth
- International Joint Commission – US Section Office
- International Joint Commission – Great Lakes Regional Office
- Lake Champlain Committee
- Sierra Club
- Stantec
- The Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research
- (CILER)
- Water Institute of the Gulf
- The Water Trust
- United Nations at headquarters
- US Geological Survey
- World Bank
International
- African Development Bank
- Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Asia (Philippines)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Catholic Relief Services
- CARE-International
- Centre for Resource Management and Environmental
- Consultative Group on International Research (CGIAR)
- European Commission
- European Rivers Network
- Global Water Initiative
- IUCN
- International Water Association
- Office International de l’Eau
- Social Justice Committee
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- The James Hutton Institute
- United Nations Headquarters in Africa (Kenya)
- United Nations Pacific Asia
- United Nations Regional Office in Europe
- United Nations University Tokyo, Japan
- Veolia Environnement Recherche et Innovation
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
- World Water Council