‘The Future of Water,’ by Andrew Findlay in BC Mag

This article was sent to us by IWTF members and features our colleague, Younes Alila, a UBC scientist in the Faculty of Forestry who specializes in forest hydrology.

‘But the term “natural disaster” is misleading, says Younes Alila, a University of British Columbia scientist in the Faculty of Forestry specializing in forest hydrology. Alila also closely watched the unfolding calamity in November 2021, an experience that he says prompted him to “come out of the closet” and start calling out the elephant in the room: that is, the devastating combination of decades of industrial clearcutting and climate change. Alila doesn’t mince words.’