Feature Story: Fulbright Canada Research Chair looking to change the way we think about and use water on the Prairies

Abstract

While droughts and floods are as old as time, there has been a sharp increase in their frequency here in Canada and around the world - to negative effect.

According to a Government of Canada agroclimate report, in 2017 the southern regions between British Columbia and the southeastern Prairies faced their driest summer in 70 years, while that spring a portion of the northern agricultural region in Alberta and Saskatchewan experienced extreme moisture conditions that caused substantial delays in spring seeding, crop development, and harvesting.