Source: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, November 1, 2017
Burned areas can be prone to floods, mudslides and contamination
The Canadian Prairies top a newly developed index of places where wildfires could create freshwater supply risks.
“We are a population depending on water coming from a fire-prone area,” said Francois-Nicolas Robinne, a University of Alberta geographer whose research has just been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
Image Source: Alberta Wildfires – (Darryl Dyck/Bloomberg)
