Slides from the presentation given by Allen Pursell from The Nature Conservancy during the Nov 10, 2011 meeting of the Indiana Sustainable Natural Resources Task Force.
More info: http://www.indianawildlife.org/snrtf.htm
20. Percentage increases in the amount falling in very heavy precipitation
events (defined as the heaviest 1% of all daily events) from 1958–2007.
31%
Percentage change in very heavy precipitation
0 10 20 30 40 60
31. Global Reserves of Rock Phosphate by Country
in billions of tons
Algeria 2009
China Even older estimates 2011
put Morocco in the lead
Jordan
Morocco
Russia
South Africa Previously overlooked
geological reports from
Syria
the 1980’s bumped up
estimates.
United States
other
0 10 20 30 40 50
33. Indiana is losing reservoir capacity. This will potentially
result in more frequent flooding and also water shortages,
especially since current w