Climate Change In The Assiniboine River Basin In Southern Saskatchewan And Manitoba

We once lived in a world lush and plentiful where we enjoyed all the natural resources peacefully. However at the beginning of the industrial revolution more people moved to the cities therefore increasing their dependency load. Fastforward to today and the world has seen a drastic change in the loss of natural resources as well as a number of health related illnesses like asthma. This is mainly due to the effects from carbon pollution, greenhouse gases and global warming. Canada as a country is thought of as environmentally aware and progressive. Actually has many issues regarding this topic and if it is not taken care of it will affect the future of the nation. I care about this topic because it has to

Heavy precipitation events that historically occurred once in 20 years are projected to occur as frequently as every 5 to 15 years by this late century. Short term droughts are expected to intensify in most regions. Longer term droughts are expected to intensify in larger regions in the Southwest. Flooding may intensify in many U.S regions. Climate change is affecting the groundwater availability also. Sea level rising and storms surges are expected to compromise the sustainability of coastal freshwater and

The overall land of the Interior Plains slopes gently downwards from the west to the east. Below the surface of the Interior Plains are mineral deposits, the swamps that are on the edge of the ancients seas that once covered Saskatchewan produced plants that were eventually changed to coal which is mined today. A lot of the Interior Plains is marked up by glaciations, the glaciers left deposits that produced rounded, gently rolling landscape. The glaciers melted water formed a large lake, when the land rose the water from the ancient lake drained into the ocean and what is left of that large ancient lake are smaller lakes known as lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipegosis , and Cedar

"Showing a great deal of variety; very different ". Not only is that the definition of diverse, but it is also a description if Canada. Canada is described like this because it is so different from other places in terms of physical characteristics, population, and natural resources. Due to these factors Canada is unlike other places but in a good way.

Groundwater basins are able to store massive amounts of waters and are great to have during droughts,

In British Columbia, there are two main ways that precipitation will change. One, annual average rainfall will go up every century by about 12% [1], and two, the intensity and frequency of droughts will increase [2]. It is predicted that, from 2070-2099, the average amount of precipitation falling on the wettest day of the year will go up by about 20% as compared to 1971-2000, and that the annual maximum number of consecutive dry days will go up by 20-30% [2]. While this means we will be getting a wetter winter, spring, and autumn, we will be getting a dryer summer [2]. The predicted dry summers are likely to affect the food sources of black bears and brown bears.

The tundra is basically like a desert when it comes to precipitation. Only about 6 - 10 inches of precipitation (mostly snow) fall each year. Below the soil is the tundra's permafrost, a permanently frozen layer of earth. During the short summers the top layer of soil may thaw just long enough to let plants grow and reproduce. Since it can't sink into the ground, water from melting permafrost and snow forms lakes and marshes each summer.

The Denver Basin has a semi arid atmosphere in which potential yearly evaporation is around five times greater than yearly precipitation. Most of the precipitation that falls on the land surface either runs off in streams, is evaporated from the surface of the soil, or is consumed by vegetation. Although this may be the case, a little part of the precipitation more often than not diffuses downwards and recharges the groundwater system. In the Denver Basin, a lot of the recharge happens in the highland areas between stream channels in the higher southern part of the basin. Precipitation is more prominent here, and the porous soils derived from the Dawson Arkose allow deep permeation. Recharge here can happen on a local and a regional scale. Locally, water moves

Climate change has an effect on water quality as a function of aridity on erosion, fire variables, and flood intensity. The conjunction of these factors lead to increased sediment in water sources for Greeley, Colorado. This research is an attempt to establish baseline and flood discharge rates in the context of climate change and events influenced by climate change on local water quality.

Climate Change has numerous impacts on water resources and availability, and understanding the processes that are driving these changes at different levels is important. Climate change and its impacts on hydrological

Plants and geologic features make up an ever-present natural defines against flooding. Grasses, shrubs and trees help keep healthy topsoil in place to absorb excess rainfall, and extensive root systems can absorb some excess water before it overwhelms a region. Naturally occurring waterways, flood plains and wetlands all serve as safety valves for floods, drawing high waters away and dispersing them safely. Unfortunately, human activities can disrupt both of these systems, increasing the likelihood and severity of floods.

Evaluated potential damages of future climate change impact of flooding risk by empirical method based and relies on statistical relationships between historical precipitation and flood damage. Changes in precipitation determined by general circulation models (GCMs). Future precipitation daily precipitation totals scenarios generated from an ensemble of GCMs, monthly average change output through SimCLIM (Randall et al., 2007) To evaluate potential damages of flooding by the statistical methods, relationship between observed precipitation and flood damages, these relationships to estimate future damages under a changing climate.

Adaptation options how under future climate change sever event of flooding risk reduction could be achieved . Assessing different adaptation options to under future climate change sever event of of flooding risk to infrastructure as well as structural and non-structural measures. Climate change extreme event flooding risk to under future climate change demonstrates adaptation measures with or without climate change and assesses of adaptation and also identifying options that can help to manage indirect flood under climate change an ‘impacts-based’ adaptation assessment (Carter et al.,

“This is very important, because we think the biggest impact from climate change is the moving of the precipitation belts. From the equator they 'll go further out, so we 're already seeing signs of a system drought. So that causes more drought in places that are already too hot. We expect the whole world. We expect bits of India we expect in the U.S., Oklahoma. You know the dust bowl region, we expect that to get much, much drier over the next few decades” (Before the Flood).

It is predicted that as global warming continues, rainfall patterns will be altered, resulting in periods of drought and flooding (Climate Change in Australia, n.d.)