Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Water Institute member Blair Feltmate, the Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, was the guest speaker at a municipality information session in Lakeshore to inform residents on how to prevent future flooding by taking advantage of the backwater valve subsidy program. Feltmate spoke on the growing threat of basement flooding.
"The amount of precipitation that falls annually in the country is up about 18 percent compared to a hundred years ago. We also have aging municipal infrastructure, aging housing infrastructure and when you bring all these factors together it contributes to flooding.”