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Dr. Terence Day with the Department of Geography and Earth and Environmental Sciences made a splash in Montreal media after his interview with digital outlet La Presse.

Day helped Quebec readers gain an understanding of what Abbotsford was facing after severe flooding affected the area last week.

He explained that the currently flooded plain used to be a lake, which had been drained to give way to farming – and that climate change could make the consequences of those decisions significant.

“It’s clear the risks (of flooding) increase with global warming, but there are also more people living (in the Sumas Prairie) than 100 years ago,” Day explained.

Excerpt from the article by Jean-Thomas Léveillé (translated):

Men wanted to tame the water, but it managed, once again, to come back.

A huge lake stood a hundred years ago on the Sumas agricultural plain east of Vancouver, which is now heavily affected by the flooding in British Columbia.

Read La Presse article (French)