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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Responsibility
- D.W. Schindler
- W.F. Donahue
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 6 pages ; illustrations , maps
- Abstract
- Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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Geochemistry of karst waters in North America : proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Speleology, Olomouc, U.S.S.R., 1976
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1976
- Author
- Harmon, Russell S
- Publisher
- Prague : Academia
- Call Number
- 03.5 H22g Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Russell S
- Responsibility
- Russell S. Harmon, D.C. Ford [et al.]
- Publisher
- Prague : Academia
- Published Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- p.103-114
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 3052
- Call Number
- 03.5 H22g Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Interglacial chronology of the Rocky and MacKenzie Mountains based upon 230 (Th) - 234 (U) dating of Calcite speleothems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7058
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Harmon, Russell S
- Call Number
- 03.2 H22i Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Russell S
- Responsibility
- by Russell S. Harmon, Derek C. Ford, and Henry P. Schwarcz
- Published Date
- 1977
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Karst
- Notes
- From Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.14, no. 11, 1977
- Call Number
- 03.2 H22i Pam
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- Archives Library
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