forWater: Managing Canada’s drinking water from catchment to tap

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Webb
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Source Water ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Downstream Effects ◽  
Innovative Solutions

‘forWater’ is a network of Canadian researchers from multiple institutions who aim to find innovative solutions to address climate change impacts on forested source water, the downstream effects, water treatability and resource economics.

scholarly journals Drinking water status in Nepal: an overview in the context of climate change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sharma ◽  
M. Baidya ◽  
P. Poudel ◽  
S. R. Panthi ◽  
R. P. Shrestha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Gray Literature ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
The Status ◽  
Remarkable Progress ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Abstract Although Nepal has made remarkable progress in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector from past few decades, the status of WASH, in terms of climate change, is poorly documented and thus less known. This review aims to sum up WASH in climate change perspectives by reviewing available secondary data from published and gray literature. Climate change, and its impact on the WASH sector, is undeniable. Though many policies and laws are enforced to address climate change issues, very few policies and laws have incorporated climate change-resilient WASH as a priority. It is of current need to carry out action-based research studies on adaptation and mitigation of impact on the WASH sector, due to climate change, along with future eco-region interventions.

Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change in Relation to Ontario’s Source Water Protection Planning Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Livingston ◽  
Edward McBean ◽  
Mason Marchildon ◽  
Bahram Gharabaghi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Source Water ◽  
Water Protection ◽  
Runoff Modeling ◽  
Source Water Protection ◽  
Hydrologic Impacts ◽  
Rcp 8.5 ◽  
Peak Streamflow ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Water management activities are currently predicated on the assumption of a stationary climate, despite the reality of climate change. Hydrologic impacts of climate change for three sub-watersheds north of Toronto for 2041-70 were investigated using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System to model six GCM projections from each of RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP 8.5. Annual groundwater recharge, evapotranspiration, and the 7Q20 low streamflow statistic were projected to change from 1976-2005 conditions by -2.2% to +20.5%, +0.9% to +14.4%, and -25.5% to +9.8%, respectively. Seasonal shifts included an earlier date of peak streamflow for the majority of simulations and a +14.0% to +103.9% increase in winter recharge. A steady-state MODFLOW model was employed as a preliminary assessment into the effects of climate change on Source Water Protection outputs. The results of this research further the understanding of climate change impacts on human and ecological systems in southern Ontario.

scholarly journals Assessing South Africa’s Potential to Address Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Fisheries Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Ortega-Cisneros ◽  
Kevern L. Cochrane ◽  
Nina Rivers ◽  
Warwick H. H. Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Marine Fisheries ◽  
Address Climate Change

The marine fisheries sector is one of the most important income sectors in South Africa and plays an important role in food security for small-scale and subsistence fishers. Climate-driven impacts have resulted in distribution shifts and declines in abundance of important fisheries targets, with negative consequences to the users dependent on these resources. The sustainability of the sector depends on its readiness to adapt to climate change. The inclusion of climate change impacts and adaptation in fisheries management documents in South Africa is essential to ensure adequate climate adaptation responses are implemented at the short- and long-term. This study aims to 1) determine if the relevant fisheries national management documents address climate change and adaptation, 2) determine if the relevant national climate change documents address climate change and adaptation in the fisheries sector and 3) evaluate the extent to which fisheries management documents address climate change and adaptation. A content analysis of fisheries management and climate change documents was carried out to determine if they incorporated information on climate change impacts and adaptation and marine fisheries respectively. Fisheries management documents were then screened against nine pre-determined criteria (or themes) based on climate change adaptation to determine the level of inclusion of best practice for climate change adaptation. Results indicate that climate change impacts and adaptation are rarely incorporated in the main fisheries management documents, except for the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan for the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors. However, this document is still waiting to be adopted. The only direct reference identified in all the fisheries documents that supports climate change adaptation was ‘conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity’. With regards to indirect references to climate change adaptation, ‘equity,’ ‘participatory management,’ and ‘capacity building’ were most frequently incorporated in fisheries management documents. There is a need to explicitly incorporate information on climate change impacts and adaptation in South African fisheries management documents and increase the human and financial capacity at national institutions to ensure that the fisheries sector can adequately adapt to climate change.

Setting objectives for evaluating management adaptation actions to address climate change impacts in south-eastern Australian fisheries

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Jennings ◽  
Sean Pascoe ◽  
Sophie Hall-Aspland ◽  
Bastien Le Bouhellec ◽  
Ana Norman-Lopez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
South Eastern
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