The Importance Of Water Selling Rates In Canada

Simple everyday things for Canadians to reduce water consumption would to fix leaky faucets, take shorter showers, and turn off the tap when they brush their teeth. Other courses of action for people would be to install toilets that use less water per flush and for the government, they could start to tax people for water usage. Some strategies to farmers would be to use drip irrigation systems, which deliver water directly to the plants roots.

To understand the current state of the safe water issue for our First Nation people, it is important to look at some current statistics. The Council of Canadians (2015) reports that “as of January 2015, there have been 169 drinking water advisories in 126 First Nation communities. With Ontario having the highest number 79, followed by British Columbia 35, Saskatchewan 24, Alberta 17, the Atlantic 7 and Quebec 2.” (p. 6) The graphic below helps us see the severity of the issue by showing the drinking water

Water is just more than drinking water. Water is the most basic and vital resource that humans need to sustain themselves. Water is used for food production from irrigating crops to actually manufacturing them. Canada like the world, uses water for sanitation, cleaning, manufacturing and daily function. Demand and supply will soon be at a crossroad, as increasing population creates increases in pollution, waste-water and global warming (Baker, 2007). This paper will seek to examine the effects of global warming on Canada’s freshwater system, the effects of pollution and will evaluate how Canada manages its freshwater now and what Canada can do to form policies that will adapt to the future crisis in Canada’s freshwater.

Companies have the technology and the knowledge to divert or sell water in a way that is safe on the environment. Part of the Canadian population has been misled to believe that Canada will not have enough water for its residents if it sells water to the United States. This is a myth. Toronto MP Dennis Mills says, “Many people just don’t understand the issue. They have this idea that the Americans are going to build the biggest pipeline the world has ever seen and drain the Great Lakes dry.” There are many proposed diversion schemes that would have minimal effect on ecology. The water diversion scheme in Manitoba is an example of this. It proposes that an insulated pipeline be stationed at the mouth of the Nelson River just before it empties into Hudson Bay. This scheme would allow the Nelson River to run its full, natural course and only divert 1% of the fresh water that is currently being emptied into Hudson Bay. The Canadian people have being misled that the world is going to run out of water. According to cbc.ca, the amount of water on the earth has stayed the same for the last four billion years, and will not change. Canadians have enough water especially compared to many other countries. According to The Globe and Mail, Maude Barlow has said “…31 countries are facing water stress and scarcity and more than a billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking. By the year 2025, as much as two-thirds of the world’s population will be

We all love water, but don’t know much about it. What I mean is that a lot of us don’t even know where our water comes from. That answer varies; for example, the city of Camarillo California gets its’ water in Camrosa Water District. It’s official website, “Camrosa Water District building Water Self- Reliance” provides information like what their purpose is, and as well as water conservation, building self-reliance, and other public information. This website states that Camrosa is currently in a state two water supply shortage. This means that there are restrictions on water use and a call for a voluntary fifteen percent reduction on the amount of water consumption. Also, according to Camrosa “Agricultural Water Management Plan”, water is being

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. - W.H. Auden. I am writing this letter behalf of all Canadians who wish to keep Canada’s precious water protected, healthy and be kept in it’s home country. Selling Canada’s water is a controversial topic and there have been several arguments and debates regarding this matter. “If you load a tanker full of oil or wheat and ship it away to a foreign country, it’s a sign of open trade and natural resource wealth. But if you load a tanker full of fresh water and ship it off to a foreign country, it can be perceived as environmentally irresponsible and culturally insensitive.”(Larson, 2015). Now it has come to a point where exporting Canada’s water has affected our economy negatively by

The Cree Indian prophecy stated that, Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money. Water is something in such abundance that is available to us at the turning of a faucet, so much that we tend to take it for granted and forget its global impact. We need to stand together and protect clean potable water when our watershed is being threatened. Water is our most precious resource, without it, life itself would seem to exist.

Context: Following a 5-year consultation period that Innergex participated in, the BC government passed the Water Sustainability Act in 2014. The Act provides a comprehensive framework for water use and modernizes water laws by:

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As a Canadian citizen who worries about the environment, and our everyday lives, I would say that we should not sell surplus water or Canadian fresh water to other countries. A water surplus is a place where there is more than enough water for the countries land and the countries people to survive. An example of a place that has surplus water is our country Canada. In fact, Canada has the most amount/the largest supply of fresh water in the world. Now as we all know, water is an essential element in our everyday lives.

Throughout Canada, people live lavishly, surrounded by all the human necessities needed to survive, and all the materialistic items that one could ever want, guaranteed a decent education and life. While they live their lives without ever encountering the desperate need for clean water, their First Nations neighbours live in stark, sad conditions, likened to those of a 3rd world country. If a community is lucky enough to have running water, then it is probably to dirty to drink. Most reserves are under a drinking water advisory, and some have even been boiling their water for over 20 years, such as the Neskantaga reserve. The government doesn’t do anything for the fatally thirsty people in a country that they call fair, equal and developed. They have devoted time and money to show that they are trying to staunch a crisis that shouldn’t be happening, but First Nations communities still have dirty, undrinkable water.

Water usage for agriculture in Ontario is exceeded by two other sectors but, does play a large part and quite important as it generates a lot of economic revenue for the citizens. In Ontario, the Canadian Government requires all farmers who will be withdrawing more than 50,000 L of water to obtain the “Permit to Take Water”. This allows for the government to monitor how much water is being allotted to the agricultural sector. There are several issues faced by the government when trying to track water usage rates in Ontario. Agricultural water use in Ontario is distributed amongst 60,000 farms (figure 1) mostly in Southern, Ontario (Loë, 2005). The allocation of water in Ontario depends on accurate information from the sources of water, users

With Canada having 20% of the world’s fresh water and 9% of the world’s renewable fresh water means that we will have enough to sell and trade with other countries and to keep for our own. Canadians waste a lot of water mainly by flushing the toilet takes up 30% of the water, bathing 35%, 20% drinking and 10% cooking. Canadians could easily cut down on water by enforcing laws to making water more expensive or even cutting down the time they use the water.

Many economists and citizens see the advantages of exporting our water. They believe that selling Canada’s fresh water will lead to more job opportunities and better relations with foreign countries. By selling water, Canadians business will earn lots of money to help finance future products. Also, many believe that Canada already has a surplus of water. Due to our misleading thoughts saying that we need an infinite amount of water, people easily waste it through accomplishing their selfish needs. In sight of this, exporting our water will teach people not to waste our most valuable resource inefficiently. Our countries water use behavior is caused because there is not price involved with it. By selling our water it would lower the supply and encourage others to conserve it more. To conclude, exporting Canada’s

Almost all across Canada, we have many clean drinking water supplies and most of the water is safe. Excluding FIrst Nations reserves in Northern Ontario and also in Manitoba. The drinking water has many contaminants that could lead to Cholera, Guinea, and many other serious diseases. The INAC (The Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada) has spent millions of dollars to fix the water systems but the water never turned out clean. First Nations reserves are designed and built without protection.NOt just because of how they are built but how the constructors didn't’ have much funds into designing it and were built very poorly. Justin Trudeau planned to stop all boiled-water reserves by the year 2021. It would take $1.8 million to