“A Timely Drought Exercise”

by Helge Nome

For a period of three years I was a participant on a team put together to create and execute

a drought simulation exercise for the Alberta Water Council and the Government of Alberta.

The report has now been completed and published while we are experiencing a multi year drought in Alberta.

This comprehensive document can be accessed by any member of the public here:

https://www.awchome.ca/uploads/source/AWC_Improving_Drought_Resilience_in_Alberta_Through_a_Simulation_FINAL_compressed.pdf

Covering a broad range of topics, the report makes a number of recommendations to improve the way we deal with

drought and the exercise conducted made the team acutely aware of shortcomings in drought readiness that need  to be addressed.”