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"Notwithstanding our endowment, we are not immune to problems," notes one of the documents, prepared in January 2006, a few weeks before Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was sworn in. "Ongoing issues, such as bulk water exports, high domestic water use, and climate change, suggest that we must be prepared for a non-linear future when it comes to reconciling uncertain supplies with growing demands."
"Groundwater is the principal water supply for approximately 30 per cent of Canadians, yet we know very little about it," say the federal documents. "Future climate change scenarios vary widely in their predictions, which confounds the knowledge deficit even further; we don't know how water supplies will be impacted and how best to adapt. Ironically, the current state of knowledge of the resource is inversely proportional to its importance.""In the future, (water) will become more and more at risk," said Alfonso Rivera, the chief hydrogeologist of the Geological Survey of Canada. "We have to invest for the future, and the future is tomorrow. It's not 2007, but who knows? In 2010, 2012, as these things change, yes, then (water supplies) will be at stake. But for the moment, there's still time to go on."See the full content of this document
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Water-Rich Status Is Put in Jeopardy
Bulk exports, high household use blamed
By Mike De SouzaOTTAWA -- The threat of global warming, bulk exports and high household water use are putting Canada's status as a water-rich nation in jeopardy, say newly released federal documents obtai...See the full content of this document
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