Water & Climate Careers: Inside Education

Careers in the Environment

http://www.eco.ca/

"Climate change is the most commonly cited trend affecting the water quality job market and skills requirements"

61% increase in water related jobs since 2012
Did you know video on careers and jobs
Essential Skills of the Environmental Sector

• analyzing & interpreting data
• working with Stakeholders (collaboration)
• public speaking
• field work

Science
Precipitation & Temperature are the most significant abiotic limiting factors on Water Quality

Resources
"Voices of the boreal"

Water 101

Jay White
Aquality Environmental Consulting Ltd.
0.389% of the worlds water is on the surface
http://www.aquality.ca/

Polaris Water Project
Canadaians consume more litres/day/person because we don't pay for it

Mean Annual Natural River Discharge in comparison with human population
Canadian National Average 274 litres/day (2009)  Environment Canada

Alberta Water Allocation
surface vs ground
sand key diagram
irrigate 625,000 = 20% of prov. gross agr. prod.
70% of southern wetlands are lost
Most of the water in our rivers today are from ground water

20% of alberta is wetlands and are only wet for 2weeks to 2 months of the year, most are frozen in the north and climate change is affecting them, they are the kidneys.
5% of world, 14% of canada, 20% of Alberta
peatland dries releases carbon

Water Quality Issues

Pharmaceuticals( Caffeine, cotinene (metabolic, carbomenizene) drastically affecting aquatic life

point source solutions is good, storm water runoff (non-point sources)

Pesticides

Floods 

Calgary 2013  6.4 Billion 2nd largest insurance payout

Drought

Invasive Species

Whirling Desease started in Johnson Lake 

http://aep.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/wildlife-diseases/whirling-disease/default.aspx

Blue Green Algae cyanobacteria blooms animals die

Round Table

Learning Clicks
www.earningclicks.alberta.ca

Cows and Fish 

Riparian Restoration and specie identification

NAIT
Water and Wastewater Technician Certificate: 1 year program

River Keepers

Hans at the North Saskatchewan River - Edmonton
Watermark, public space online to share how stories connect people with water. Trying to close the gap between the disconnect of science and spiritual connection between water and people.

Alley Kat Brewery

10L of water for 1L of beer. , the best heard of is a brewery that claims 2.38L for every 1L of beer.

Day 2:  Water & Climate Alberta Innovates

http://albertainnovates.ca/
Vicki.Lightbrown@albertainnovates.ca

Alberta is unique in that all components of water issues are all within 1 jurisdiction.
There is still a lot that we don't know about water.

UofA, Brian Caldwell
Does fire affect water?
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/fort-mcmurrays-water-supply-contaminated-wildfire

www.swimmersitch.ca
Need entrepreneurs to develop new water technologies & services
Saltworks
Membranes
Zero liquid discharge
Novel evaporators
High temperature treatment

Oilsands are recycling 95% of the water

http://www.frackingfact.com/
A company is taking the water that was going to be dumped, treating it and reselling it.
An app for irrigators to start/stop irrigation moisture sensors in the field
Gray water & Black water systems
Watewater Resource Recovery (St. Albert) installed in spring (education centre
Titanium Corporation (mineral recovery)

http://www.titaniumcorporation.com/s/Home.asp

University of Regina, Climate and water
Tree rings
Water flow data over time
http://www.parc.ca/urtreelab/presentations.htm

University Of Alberta

Gold Bar Waste Treatment Plant

I thought they called this "Chit" which is the 1st step at the plant removing the solid matter (things that should go down the toilet, wet naps, feminine products, plastic gloves, dental floss, hair).