Climate change and water scarcity
As part of my university studies I had the privelege of attending one of my Professors inaugural lecture, the lecture focused on climate change and the future of water in the tropics. Professor Richard Taylor discussed ways in which climate change is going to permanently alter weather patterns making rainfall less predictable and less regular. In his paper which focuses on rainfall intensity Taylor discusses the ways in which climate change is going to increase the number of more intense 'extreme' rainfall events at the expense of more regular rainfall. The impacts of this are there will be reduced surface and sub-surface water flows and reduced soil moisture (I will discuss the implications of this in a future blog). As a result of this reduction of surface and subsurface flow there will be an increased dependence on Ground Water and Professor Taylor half jokingly asserted that in order to survive the anthropocene (our current epoch) we should all dig wells (to access this g...