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The Fight For Fresh Water Shortage In Canada

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Water resources problem areis a serious challenge to the social and economic sustainable development around the whole world. With regards to the predator of fresh water shortage in global scale, Canada also unfortunately falls to its prey. Blessed with abundant fresh water in lakes, streams, rivers and most importantly –the underground water, Canada has long taken it for granted that fresh water supply will never be their concern. However, the approaching of fresh water shortage has only until recently woken Canadians from their dreams.
When Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development implemented underground water tapping programs and the Munk School of Global Affairs held a symposium themed on mapping underground water, federal and public concerns are fomenting.
While underground water will replenish, or renew? Choose oneable, in terms of the current replenishment rate, the completion of this renewing process costs takes?up to approximately ten years. The time …show more content…

Laudal (2012) pointed out that as an economic strategy to internalize positive externalities, Canadian government, and environment-concerned royalties, could contribute to providing subsidies and technical support to private sectors in underground water exploitation.
Fresh water shortage is actually beyond an issue of natural resource preservation, and it could lead to social and political instabilities when Canada will fight for limited fresh water and import it for domestic sustenance.
Water is the source of life, and the material basis of the human beings’ survival and the social and economic development. Reliable, sustainable fresh water supply concerns the livelihood of every Canadian. Though seemingly alarmist, the issue of underground water tapping raises our concern for water preservation, in case that fresh water supply would one day ambush us, totally

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