Contact the AuthorWater Un-frastructure
February 14, 2012 - 10:30 am
The most immediately compelling argument we have in support of water policy reform in Canada is what hydrologists describe as the loss of hydrological stationarity. While few outside the fields of hydrology and climatology presently understand the meaning of stationarity, it won’t be long before the...
Tags: Bob Sandford, climate change, hydrological stationarity, infrastructure
Lake Winnipeg: Canada’s Great Dead Zone
December 5, 2011 - 8:26 am
We need to be honest with ourselves. What we have created is the largest inland freshwater dead zone in the world. At 15,000 square kilometres in area, algal blooms in Lake Winnipeg are now larger than the record 8,500-square-mile area of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. We need to admit that...
Tags: algae, algal blooms, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxic, Lake Winnipeg, nitrogen, phosphorus
No Mere Budget Cut
September 9, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Let us be clear. Unless you believe that contracting a flesh-eating disease is a reasonable way to lose weight, it is difficult to interpret what is presently happening to Environment Canada as a mere budget cut. To accept what we have seen happen to this crucial federal government department as...
Tags: Environment Canada, monitoring
