Otonabee Region Conservation Authority

Sensitivity of the Jackson Creek hydrologic system to climate change

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If climate change occurs it could seriously impact the work and programs of Otonabee Region Conservation Authority as well as having environmental and socio-economic effects on local watersheds. This study was intended to examine the possible change in flood probabilities in the Jackson Creek sub-watershed located within the Otonabee Conservation watershed in response to increases resulting from global warming changes to rainfall depths of storms of various durations.

2002

Determining areas of bedrock groundwater vulnerability to contamination in the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority drainage basin: a research report

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A large number of scientific reports, government publications and newspapers identify a growing scarcity of freshwater resources for human beings and ecosystems worldwide. Not only are there a finite number of freshwater resources in the world, of the ones we extract water from we continue to contaminate at an alarming rate,

2002