On December 11, 2018, the Canadian Mountain Network hosted a panel discussion on how #MountainsMatter for Water as a part of the University of Alberta's 2018 Mountain Festival.
Mountains are ‘water towers’ for the world, providing 60 and 80 percent of all freshwater resources. However, all available records indicate that glaciers in mountain ranges around the world are retreating and disappearing due to climate change. At least 600 glaciers have disappeared completely over the past decades, affecting water supplies relied on by billions living downstream. - Source FAO Departments and Offices
Panellists:
BILL DONAHUE
Visiting Scientist, University of Alberta
Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
Alberta Environment and Parks
Panel Topic: Climate change and its effects on water quantity and quality.
ROLF VINEBROOKE
Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Panel Topic: Mountain aquatic ecosystems and how they’re responding to cumulative impacts of multiple stressors.
LEON ANDREW
Shúhtagot’įnę Elder
Tulít’a Dene Band Sahtú
Renewable Resources Board
Panel Topic: Central Mackenzie Mountain watershed and the relationship to the Tulita Dené.
DAN FARR
Director
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Sciences
Alberta Environment and Parks
Panel Topic: Alberta’s headwaters as living laboratories.
WILLIAM SNOW
Consultation Manager
Stoney Consultation
Stoney Tribal Administration
Panel Topic: Culturally Important Water Places in the Bow Valley.
Moderated by Roger Epp
The Canadian Mountain Podcast is brought to you by the Canadian Mountain Network. We are a voluntary alliance of partners from universities, governments, Indigenous communities, and businesses that is dedicated to the sustainability of our mountain environments and communities across the country and around the world. Special thanks to the University of Alberta and the Faculty of Science for supporting this podcast.
