Pressure on Canada to Export Water Will Be Immense

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Pressure on Canada to Export Water Will Be Immense

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Sharp global policy experts are already crafting the legal case for doing so.

Michael Harris - The Tyee - November 4 2024 - ***Internal LINKS**(

EXCERPT: "It is time to get worried, very worried, about water..

A global water crisis will leave half of the world’s food production at risk in the next 25 years, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economics of Water published just this month. The planet’s water systems are under “unprecedented stress.”

The commission was set up by the Netherlands in 2022, and its 194-page report is the largest global study of all aspects of the water crisis, including its relation to global warming. The climate crisis “manifests itself first and foremost in droughts and floods.” Every 1 C increase in global temperature adds another seven per cent of moisture to the atmosphere, which in turn “powers up” the hydrological cycle.

The commission’s October report is far from the first warning of what is happening to the resource that makes life on Earth possible. On the eve of a landmark United Nations water summit in March 2023, experts predicted that the global demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40 per cent by the end of the decade. . . . .

Count on this, as well: Any country that turns water into a commodity and peddles it like lumber or soybeans is not merely selling a resource. It is selling its future." [Tyee]

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