Natural
Resources
Canada
(NRCan)
and
Aquanty
Inc.
recently
announced
initiation
of
the
Canada
1
Water
project
to
address
the
long-term
sustainability
of
Canada’s
water
resources.
“The
Canada
1
Water
project
will,
for
the
first
time,
develop
a
continental-scale,
groundwater-surface
water
modelling
platform
integrated
with
climate
and
land
use
change
information
to
inform
understanding
and
decisions
on
the
sustainability
of
Canada’s
water
resources”
said
Ed
Sudicky,
Professor
Emeritus
in
the
Department
of
Earth
and
Environmental
Sciences
and
founder
of
Aquanty
Inc.
Canada
1
Water
will
construct
state-of-the-art
integrated
surface/subsurface
models
based
on
Aquanty’s
HydroGeoSphere
platform,
with
simulated
climate
change
scenarios
for
all
six
of
Canada’s
major
drainage
regions,
encompassing
almost
ten
million
square
kilometers.
Dr.
Steve
Frey,
who
received
his
PhD
(2011)
in
the
Department
of
Earth
and
Environmental
Sciences
under
the
supervision
of
Water
Institute
member
Professor
David
Rudolph,
will
lead
Aquanty’s
work.
The
platform
will
include
decision
support
tools
to
inform
on
droughts,
floods,
carbon
sequestration,
wildfire
risk,
permafrost
changes,
ecosystem
services,
and
surface/groundwater
quantity
providing
an
integrated
means
to
assess
commodity
(i.e.,
forestry,
agriculture,
mining)
responses
and
risk
associated
with
projected
climate
and
land
use
induced
changes.
Importantly,
the
Canada
1
Water
project
will
address
surface
water
and
groundwater
resource
issues
such
as
cumulative
effects,
impacts
of
permafrost
loss
and
flooding,
key
issues
for
Indigenous
communities
across
Canada.
The
Canada
1
Water
project
is
an
initiative
of
NRCan’s
Groundwater
Geoscience
Program
and
Aquanty
Inc.
together
with
Agriculture
and
Agrifood
Canada
and
the
universities
of
Waterloo
and
Toronto.
Project
updates
are
available
at:
canada1water.ca/
