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 Items tagged: climate changeItems Found: 15Cross-Canada Tour Reveals National Concern About WaterMay 23, 2012 - 4:48 pm This week, the Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) released Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on our Water Future, highlighting a 16-city cross-Canada tour conducted by Canmore-based Bob Sandford, co-chair of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW). Sandford released the report today... Climate Change Adaptation Projects in Nova ScotiaApril 23, 2012 - 2:20 pm The Province recently announced that it is once again aiming to help communities prepare for the challenges linked to climate change. The Department of Environment is offering up to $25,000 through its Climate Change Adaptation Fund. "Nova Scotians need to prepare for the realities of climate change,"... Categories: Atlantic Canada, News Water Un-frastructureFebruary 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... Categories: Blog Ontario Too Slow: ECO's Annual ReportNovember 29, 2011 - 1:46 pm Ontario's Environmental Commissioner is worried that Ontario has lost momentum when it comes to the province's pressing environmental issues. In his 2010/2011 Annual Report, titled Engaging Solutions, Gord Miller says there's no shortage of talk about the problems such as climate change, waste... How-To StrategiesAugust 8, 2011 - 9:02 am Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate change assessments into many of our water management efforts. Will the water levels in the Great Lakes decline? Will the rivers of the Prairies... Categories: Features IBC and FCM Announce Watershed AwardsFebruary 11, 2010 - 3:52 pm The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), in partnership with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), this morning announced the Watershed Awards, a new annual awards program to recognize Canadian municipalities that have taken proactive measures to reduce their vulnerability to storm and... Global Water Experts to Meet in CanadaJanuary 5, 2010 - 9:42 am More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Ontario from February 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach to the global water crisis that increasingly threatens both human health and international security. At its first-ever meeting in Canada, the... Categories: International, News, Ontario WWF Releases Rivers at Risk ReportOctober 16, 2009 - 8:14 am Our friends over at WWF-Canada have released a new report, Canada's Rivers at Risk: Environmental Flows and Canada's Freshwater Future (pdf here). The report claims that Canada’s fresh water is in jeopardy due to the effects of climate change and growing water demand. The report uses a scientific... April 29, 2010: Engineering in a Climate of Change: Making the Lakes Great, a North American SymposiumJuly 20, 2009 - 11:46 am Toronto, ON Website: Click here. Categories: Events Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnisMarch 30, 2009 - 12:07 pm "Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it." In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one of the world's foremost underwater explorers, installed Sublimnos—the first underwater habitat under ice—in Lake Huron at a depth of ten metres. The "underwater classroom"... Categories: Features |
