1,000,000 sqkm of fresh water

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Do you people in Canada even realise that you are sitting on something the world will yearn badly? I mean fresh water. That is going to be something there will be wars about in the future.

We in Finland have about 10% of our land surface fresh water, that is about 35000 sq km's but you in Canada have the same proportion and that is like 1m sq km.

Fresh water will one day be like we consider oil today.

[cybercoma]

Don't worry. The Conservatives are going to let companies pollute the shit out of it, so nobody's going to want to touch it in the future.

[login]

This just hit me today

http://o.canada.com/...ream-protected/

the fact that lakes and rivers arn't protected anymore as of December 5th 2012.

I have to say I'd sooner see the politicians backing the change poisoned than the wildlife and my drinking water.

Being in a mining intensive area, it is distressing that a few shareholders and execs can make massive profits while I suffer extensive losses to my quality of life. It is criminal.

Edited December 9, 2012 by login

[kward]

Don't worry. The Conservatives are going to let companies pollute the shit out of it, so nobody's going to want to touch it in the future.

Land ownership will put a stop to pollution a lot more cheaply and effectively than the government will, under Harper or anyone else for that matter.

[kward]

This just hit me today

http://o.canada.com/...ream-protected/

the fact that lakes and rivers arn't protected anymore as of December 5th 2012.

I have to say I'd sooner see the politicians backing the change poisoned than the wildlife and my drinking water.

Being in a mining intensive area, it is distressing that a few shareholders and execs can make massive profits while I suffer extensive losses to my quality of life. It is criminal.

That's why you've got to tell the government to sell off these "Crown" lands to private land owners who will have an interest in protecting their assets.

[wyly]

Do you people in Canada even realise that you are sitting on something the world will yearn badly? I mean fresh water. That is going to be something there will be wars about in the future.

We in Finland have about 10% of our land surface fresh water, that is about 35000 sq km's but you in Canada have the same proportion and that is like 1m sq km.

Fresh water will one day be like we consider oil today.

watch as it disappears over the next hundred years...

[Argus]

Don't worry. The Conservatives are going to let companies pollute the shit out of it, so nobody's going to want to touch it in the future.

Pollution control, in most cases, is a provincial responsibility.

[Smallc]

That's right, it isn't like it's suddenly open season on our waterways.

[Bryan]

That's right, it isn't like it's suddenly open season on our waterways.

Exactly. Some people act as if removing redundancy is a bad thing. Simplifying a process is not the same thing as removing it.

[login]

That's why you've got to tell the government to sell off these "Crown" lands to private land owners who will have an interest in protecting their assets.

That is laughable. The only people buying the majority of back woods lands will be resource extractors.

While I do think that selling lands with protections built in is something that could be done.. people don't move to those places, the effect would be minimal and servicing costs would sky rocket if it was done as a scattering. I'd give em away for development, not sell them, but onyl to individuals with only the right of forfeiture rather than sale.

And only to Canadian citizens.

Also selling waterways is in no publics interest.

The bottom line is that water quality should not be able to be effected by anything human. This means revamping sewage and industrial waste systems. People don't have the appetite for that, but that is my position.

Fact is making closed systems will be in the long run beneficial, such as for biowaste recycling, and industrial waste recycling.

Its to easy to just pollute and ignore because there is a resource abundance and people don't give a f*.

Not what I support as an ideal, .. and it won't be seen anytime this decade because the social movement isn't there. Too many old poeple that don't give a damn about young peoples future or their descendents quality of life. It is all ME ME ME.

I've seen property owners on and about and they are still dumping their bodily wastes into their drinking water. (hey there are water filters now right... totally forgetting the fact things exist other than humans including animals and bugs that live in that stuff) Having "buyers" tests and setting up electric shock collars to enforce the will of the mastermind ain't gonna happen. To many intersts in a sh!ty world, it makes bad people lots of money. They like it that way too.

Edited December 10, 2012 by login

[Guest Peeves]

Do you people in Canada even realise that you are sitting on something the world will yearn badly? I mean fresh water. That is going to be something there will be wars about in the future.

We in Finland have about 10% of our land surface fresh water, that is about 35000 sq km's but you in Canada have the same proportion and that is like 1m sq km.

Fresh water will one day be like we consider oil today.

We realise it,and for the most part have more care and concerns about same than there were a hundred year or even fifty years ago. The USA is (I believe in my conspiracy minded view of our neighbors... ) that we will continue our custodianship of our waters regardless the need to water US golf courses in arid locations.