Bulk Water Exports
Given that Canada and the United States share interconnected water systems, there is pressure to send water to serve drought-prone areas in the U.S. through bulk water exports. These projects are tremendously costly, require vast amounts of energy, and pose great threats to watersheds. Bulk water exports and diversions would leave Canada’s water vulnerable to environmental depletion and to international trade challenges that could permanently open the floodgates to parched U.S. states.
NEWS: Harper set to reintroduce transboundary water diversions bill
Conservative MP Larry Miller It appears that the Harper government is about to re-introduce C-26, An Act to amend the ...
VIEW: Resist the right to water, say Pardy and Corcoran
Bruce Pardy Queen's University law professor Bruce Pardy writes in the Financial Post, "In July 2010, the United Nations General ...
NEWS: Chretien, Clinton, Fox to discuss global water crisis in Quebec City
CBC Radio Canada reports that, "A little more than thirty former heads of state will be in Quebec City from ...
LETTER: Lui vs Reguly on water-intensive industries
Emma Lui Yesterday, Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly wrote that Canada should welcome the reality that "water-intensive industries will ...
VIEW: ‘Manitoba should keep Leaky Exports report in mind’, says Rance
Laura Rance, editor of the Manitoba Co-operator, writes in an op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press, "The report Leaky Exports: ...
VIEW: ‘Don’t export water, make the jobs come to the water’, says Reguly
Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly writes, "A UBS Investment Research study implies that water-intensive industries will have to migrate ...
NEWS: A large amount of Canada’s water is siphoned indirectly by the United States
Yesterday, the Council of Canadians released a new report called Leaky Exports: A portrait of the virtual water trade in ...
ELECTION 2011: Conservatives, Liberals fail on the right to water
Day 26 THE RIGHT TO WATER: On July 28, 2010, the right to water and sanitation was recognized by the ...
