CBC News - Climate change a 'disaster in slow motion' for places like P.E.I., experts say
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Sea-level rise is already having a devastating impact on coastal communities around Canada, and these impacts are set to increase in severity as time goes on. The most immediate and obvious impacts of sea-level rise and increasing storm intensity are coastal erosion like we saw in Price Edward Island earlier this year following Hurricane Fiona.
But sea-level rise will also exert significant impacts on the basic water balance of coastal areas, groundwater-surface water interactions, and depth to groundwater, and these impacts will likely extend much further inland than a shift in coastline.
Keep an eye on the Canada1Water project to learn more about how sea-level rise will impact groundwater and surface water resources in coastal areas.