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How water resilience helps communities deal with a changing climate

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How water resilience helps communities deal with a changing climate Less pollution of watercourses: Stormwater management ponds are designed to capture stormwater pouring off hard surfaces such as roadways, roofs, and parking lots. They retain the water so it can be released more gradually into surface water, and also help settle out suspended solids, so there is less pollution of watercourses. Image courtesy of Golder Associates.
Published in November 2020 - Page 27

Water management is one of the biggest challenges facing communities today, and the problems seem to be getting worse. Alberta is a case in point, with situations ranging from Calgary’s historic 2013 flooding to drought conditions and wildfires in 20171 and 2018.

Much of this extreme weather can be attributed to climate change. New realities imply that historic data is becoming a less accurate guide to the future, so it’s getting harder to predict the

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