Although most of its work has focused on Canada-US Transboundary Water Issues, since its formation in 2001, POWI has been asked to conduct research on some other important water-related issues. This includes research on:
- Governance: the potential restructuring of water utilities in Ontario, governance implications of restructuring, and potential business models; and
- Groundwater: groundwater in North America, including existing and future threats to the resource, barriers to improved management of the resource and how those barriers can be overcome.
- Rapid Changes: Canada and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
- Fracture Lines: Will Canada’s Water be Protected in the Rush to Develop Shale Gas?
- Embargoed until 9:00 AM EST Thursday, October 14, 2010
- Points de Rupture: L’eau du Canada sera-t-elle protégée face à l’engouement pour le gaz de shale?
- Sous embargo jusqu’à 9 h HNE le jeudi 14 octobre 2010
- Governance, business models and restructuring water supply utilities: recent developments in Ontario, Canada
- An analysis of how Ontario municipalities are restructuring water supply utility management, situated within a general survey of business models for networked water supplies.
- Good Governance in Restructuring Water Supply
A Handbook 
- A resource for the non-specialist, focusing on good governance in the context of restructuring water supply services.
- Good Governance in Municipal Restructuring of Water and Wastewater Services in Canada
- A Case Study of restructuring water and wastewater options for the City of Hamilton and Hamilton Utilities Corporation.
- Good Governance in Municipal Restructuring of Water and Wastewater Services in Canada
Abridged Version 
- An overview of a Case Study of restructuring water and wastewater options for the City of Hamilton and Hamilton Utilities Corporation.
- Expert Workshop on Freshwater in North America
- North American water experts focus on groundwater issues—the problems, barriers to fixing them and ways of moving forward.
- Groundwater: A North American Resource
Discussion Paper 
- Groundwater is a vital—but under-appreciated—part of our freshwater system, and the time to begin a North American dialogue on it is now.
- Don't Tap into the Private Sector
- Publicly owned is wiser than flush with profits, say academics Karen Bakker, David Cameron and Adèle Hurley, a former International Joint Commission co-chair.
