Calgary election: The future of the city with a changed climate
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Climate change is affecting utilities like electricity and water, and those impacts are expected to continue unless more aggressive policy is put in place.
How Calgary’s utilities are performing isn’t a headline issue for voters going to the polls this month, with the pandemic and economic recovery at top of mind. But when it affects what does or doesn’t come out of the taps, Calgarians are sure to pay attention.
“Calgary is actually a relatively large city on two small rivers,” said Harpreet Sandhu, leader of watershed strategy.
Those rivers are fed by rain and snow in the watershed of the foothills and mountains west of Calgary. But trends affecting the rivers are “fundamentally changing” how and when the city receives water.
“We know that the mountain snowpack has been melting earlier in the year. We do have longer, hotter and drier summers,” Sandhu said.
“And we also know that when we do get storms, it will be more intense and that affects definitely river flooding, but also the pattern of when and how we receive water is changing.”
Sandhu says these changes are due to climate change.
Calgarians can expect to have to change their water use next decade, according to the city’s water security report released last year.
“The City will not be able to provide the full amount of water demanded on a peak day by customers by the mid-2030s,” the report says.
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