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Climate Change, Water Resources, and Rural Community Capacity to Adapt (2001)

The capacity of rural communities in the upper Credit River watershed, a rural-urban fringe area in southern Ontario, to adapt to climate-induced water shortages was assessed, recognising the need to balance human water needs with protection of water for natural systems.

Our Climate Change Action Fund research project # A258 assessed the capacity of rural communities in the upper Credit River watershed in southern Ontario to adapt to climate-induced water shortages. The research effort was organized around three objectives:
1. Identify the actual and potential impacts of climate-induced variability on hydrologic systems in the upper Credit River watershed.
2. Identify adaptation responses and determine and assess factors that facilitate and constrain the ability of rural communities to balance human uses of water and ecosystem protection under increasing climate variability.
3. Recommend strategies to enhance the capacity of rural communities to adapt to climate-induced variability in hydrologic systems.

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