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Canada needs a comprehensive water policy, now
And, thanks to the climate crisis, the pressure of time is accelerating.
There will never be enough space, enough words to even scratch the surface of the ways in which water is at risk. In a brief essay, one can merely list the complex issues that face us. We are wasting potable water, polluting natural water, exporting virtual water, losing wetlands and forests that retain and purify water, over-pumping groundwater, treating drinking water standards as flexible guidelines no one need heed, while boil-water orders move from community to community, being semi-permanent in First Nations communities.
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Canada needs a comprehensive water policy, now
And, thanks to the climate crisis, the pressure of time is accelerating.
There will never be enough space, enough words to even scratch the surface of the ways in which water is at risk. In a brief essay, one can merely list the complex issues that face us. We are wasting potable water, polluting natural water, exporting virtual water, losing wetlands and forests that retain and purify water, over-pumping groundwater, treating drinking water standards as flexible guidelines no one need heed, while boil-water orders move from community to community, being semi-permanent in First Nations communities.
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