To find ways to manage water supply, University of Regina sociologist Harry Diaz is heading a five-year study comparing conditions in Canada’s South Saskatchewan River basin to Chile’s Coquimbo water basin. He hopes to use conditions in Chile as a model to forecast the impact of climate change on the Canadian Prairies.
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Canadians could soon be looking at the origins of the universe after the completion
of a telescope in Chile in 2011 that will allow scientists to study the birth
of galaxies. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope is being built
with help from the National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Institute
of Astrophysics.
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