Larissa Kurz
Regina Leader-Post
March 30, 2024
Several Saskatchewan environmental groups say concerns about blind spots in the $4-billion Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Project have not gone away while the project has been on the shelf.
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Canada Had Designs on Being a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up.
Vipal Monga
The Wall Street Journal
March 27, 2024
About 70% of the country is suffering from abnormally dry or drought conditions, forcing it to start up old gas-fired power plants.
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The Crowsnest River in southern Alberta is close to running dry, and that might affect Saskatoon
Theresa Kliem
CBC Listen
Saskatoon Morning with Candice Lipski
February 28, 2024
One of the waterways that’s supposed to feed the South Saskatchewan River is running dry. To find out what those implications are, host Theresa Kliem talks with John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change.
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What’s the recipe for a severe drought in Western Canada?
Connor O’Donovan
The Weather Network
February 2, 2024
Coming off an incredibly dry 2023, Alberta is looking for some major help from nature over the remaining winter months and spring to hydrate the province. The Weather Network’s Connor O’Donovan has the mid-winter drought outlook for Alberta.
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‘A societal issue’: Drought-plagued Alberta braces for even worse conditions
Jason Markusoff
CBC News
February 1, 2024
Day after day, the water trucks rolled into the southwest Alberta communities of Cowley, Lundbreck and Beaver Mines. Due to severe drought conditions, that’s how residents and businesses got their water supply between last August and late December.
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Low snowpack, warm temperatures raise concern about continued Alberta drought
Bill Macfarlane
CTV News Calgary
January 30, 2024
The Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change says eastern and southern Alberta are facing some of the worst drought conditions on record – including the Dustbowl years of the 1930s and the severe drought of 2001-01.
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Dry January: why a dash of snow and rain can’t solve B.C.’s water woes
Arno Kopecky
The Narwhal
January 24, 2024
Arno Kopecky set out to write about B.C.’s winter heat and drought. Then the polar vortex arrived.
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Climate scientists raising concerns over Alberta’s groundwater levels amid Prairie drought
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
January 21, 2024
In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there’s a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried.
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Alberta Primetime: John Pomeroy Interview
CTV News Edmonton
January 17, 2024
Interview with USask Centre for Hydrology Director John Pomeroy on January 17, 2024.
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Podcast Episode: Canada’s Dry: “We’re in a new game here”
The Big Story Podcast
January 15, 2024
Winter on the prairies is not usually a time to worry about drought, and fire. At least, it wasn’t. But large swaths of the country, from BC through Ontario, are currently seeing a lack of snow and water accumulation that is “unprecedented in modern times,” according to an expert.
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