C1W Feature on the First Sixteen Podcast - Modelling the future of water
The First Sixteen is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC) podcast series that explores the freshest ideas in agriculture and food. Each episode explores a single topic in depth—digging deep into new practices, innovative ideas, and their impacts on the industry.
“We’re generating these simulations using climate and weather information, future climate scenarios, things like that. So you can imagine that if we project into the future what’s going to happen in 10 years, 15 years, 50 years... what might the water resources look like in Canada, in the agricultural regions and beyond... and that’s what Canada1Water is. ”
And the latest episode of the podcast is dedicated entirely to the Canada1Water project! The episode features Aquanty’s Dr. Steve Frey (C1W project co-lead) and AAFC’s Dr. David Lapen (AAFC project lead for C1W) and a discussion about this cross-country hydrologic modelling effort and how the project will support researchers, agricultural producers/farmers and decision makers to anticipate the impacts that climate change will have on Canada’s water resources, and crop production to the end of century.
Click here to listen to The First Sixteen Episode 024 - Modelling the future of water
“Right now, a lot of people have kind of a gut feel as to how climate change may impact their water resources. But we’ll be providing the datasets and the tools and actually the outputs from the modeling to really put a quantitative spin on how things will be changing. And when we say water resources, we’re talking about ground water, soil moisture, and surface water. So we’re really looking at the entire terrestrial hydrologic cycle when we’re investigating how climate change is potentially going to alter or change the state of water and the volume of water across the country.”