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The document discusses the impacts of climate change on water balances at local, regional, and global levels, emphasizing the importance of understanding these changes for freshwater sources. It encourages critical thinking about the hydrologic cycle, data collection, and public perception regarding solutions to climate-related issues. Students are prompted to explore various aspects of hydrology and consider potential impacts on agriculture, urban design, and natural disasters.

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The document discusses the impacts of climate change on water balances at local, regional, and global levels, emphasizing the importance of understanding these changes for freshwater sources. It encourages critical thinking about the hydrologic cycle, data collection, and public perception regarding solutions to climate-related issues. Students are prompted to explore various aspects of hydrology and consider potential impacts on agriculture, urban design, and natural disasters.

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This time, we will look at and discuss how all the impacts (both positive and

negative) from climate change are altering and modifying, local, regional, or
global water balances. Think about all the various ways that a warming Earth
changes and impacts the many different flows, interactions, and storages of water.
Are these changes good, bad, or perhaps neutral? It is extremely important for us
to understand how climate change is impacting our freshwater sources, as it is
vital to life on our planet. If you wish to draw your answers from real data,
please make sure to reference where your information came from. There are some
great links in our Week 12, Climate Change module.

Therefore, in the final Discussion Post of our course, we would like students to
think critically about the connections, interactions, concerns, and impacts of
climate change/global warming on our planet's hydrologic cycle, the availability of
freshwater, the water cycle, or any other relevant aspect of hydrology discussed in
our course.

Some Idea's to help get you started:

What scale are you concerned about, or wish to discuss? Local, Regional, or Global?
Draw on your experience from Discussion Posts #1 to think about the water cycle,
and all the flows and interactions. How are these being altered, due to climate
change?
Draw on your experience from Discussion Posts #2 and #3 and think about the data!
What kinds of datasets do scientists focus on? How are those datasets collected
and/or analysed? Are they accurate representations of the real world? What are some
issues concerns you may have?
What other data or analyse could you suggest might help scientists understand the
impacts of climate change on the hydrologic cycle?
Public perception or opinion on possible solutions. Can these be enacted? Will the
public make the required changes?
How might climate change impact natural disasters?
How might climate change impact the design of future towns and cities?
How might climate change impact the future of agriculture?
What are some possible solutions, based in the realm of Hydrology? (e.g., not just
atmospheric CO2 reductions)

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