Crops and lakes could be affected by the Prairies entering into a dryer climate cycle.
Climate Change might be shifting how the typical 10 year wet and dry cycles function.
Ruth Eden the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister from Manitoba Infrastructure says more droughts and lower water levels in lakes are some effects.
“This is just a symptom of leaving a wet cycle and going into a dryer cycle. The lake levels may not be what they’ve been for the past ten years, we’ll just have to watch that. But we could be going into a more within the normal range over the history.”
For the past eight to ten years Eden says the prairies have been in a wet cycle and is at the point when it begins to shift.
