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Northern Manitoba’s communities are already battling fires and floods—not just worrying about them later. Monitoring can’t stop these events, but it can reveal their impacts. Students measuring streamflow and studying burned landscapes are seeing firsthand how water and fire reshape ecosystems, threatening drinking water, fish, and livelihoods. While Manitoba has water monitoring, Northern Manitoba needs a unified, community-driven system that integrates wildfire effects, flooding, lakes, wetlands, and Indigenous knowledge—with student training and local decision-making at its core. After a fire, soil erosion and ash runoff can pollute waterways; after a flood, sediment and contaminants threaten wells and infrastructure. What’s needed are sustained research pathways that build local capacity, empower youth, and deliver timely, practical data—turning environmental science into careers and community resilience.

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