The Institute works to ensure that society globally has the understanding and the tools to sustainably manage and protect the world’s water resources, and that Canada has the research and expertise needed to understand and manage our water systems in an era of rapid societal and environmental change. [...] Global Leadership GIWS works to ensure that society has the understanding and the tools to sustainably manage and protect the world’s water resources and ensure that Canada, and the world, has the research and expertise needed to understand our water systems in an era of rapid societal and environmental change. [...] The above field facilities build on the long history of observations and expertise available with the Centre for Hydrology, which focuses on the advancement of the theory and practice of hydrology as a physical environmental science, leading to improved prediction and management of water resources in Canada and around the world. [...] In addition, winter base-flow is now higher and spring freshets have been DDN Research Sites dampened due to capture and storage and the Experts in climate, hydrology, ecology and social science are addressing the cumulative repercussions of these changes in flow for the production of fish, water-birds and mammals, and for the activities and livelihoods of local communities. [...] Research is underway (including major modelling work) to understand near-surface groundwater and groundwater surface-water interactions and evaluate the hydrogeology associated with the Bakken shale oil play in the south of the prairies, including the sustainable yield from the Quaternary and (lower quality) Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous aquifers, the role of aquitards and buried valleys, and cumu.
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