Water Institute member Blair Feltmate, professor in Waterloo's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and the head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, spoke with Vassy Kapelos on CBC’s Power & Politics about flood risk.
“The problems pertaining to flooding are going to get more challenging going forward, and we need to prepare very rapidly to take risk out of the system, relative to future flood events. We need to speed up the degree to which we deploy adaptation, to deal with these extreme weather events.” said Feltmate.
When large volumes of precipitation come down over short periods of time, which is happening increasingly due to climate change, we have to look at how can we prepare Canadians to not end up with all that water, in the basement of their homes. The number one cost to Canada by far due to climate change and extreme weather risk is flooding, and specifically flooding basements.
