The Narwhal: Prairie provinces are supposed to share water. What happens during a drought?

With all of this uncertainty, it doesn’t take much to tip the scales in a province where almost all — more than 96 per cent — of its electricity comes from hydro.

“In our very preliminary analysis, even a five per cent decrease in inflow to the Manitoba Hydro system … will have a significant impact on power generation,” Masoud Asadzadeh, a professor in the department of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba, said in an interview.

With his research focusing on simulation, design and analysis of water-engineering systems, Asadzadeh said more groundwork needs to be done to facilitate the tough, but necessary, conversations around water sharing in an era of climate change.

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