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Originally Posted by Lchoy
Water scarcity is a real emerging issue and combating it is not as easy as you make it out to be. We are not talking about just drinking water, but water used in industy and irrigation as well.
In Alberta, the risk of drought is increasing every year. It's one of the main reason why we can't build a nuclear power plant here, as we don't have the water to spare to operate one
Here are 2 sites that delves into the topic in much greater detail
http://www.who.int/features/factfile.../en/index.html
http://www.innovationcanada.ca/en/ar...canadian-water |
Combating water scarcity is pretty easy. You collect and store it, or you process it as you need it (eg. desalination of ocean water)
Take a look at the Smallwood Reservoir (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallwood_Reservoir). Second largest water reservoir in the world. It's a lot of water. It's only 6500 square kilometers; we have a lot of land, and conveniently, most rivers in Canada actually flow north, into less densely populated areas where we can construct huge reservoirs.
Unless you think that Canada will become a desert, devoid of all forms of runoff water, there is enormous untapped potential to provide fresh water just in terms of our ability to create enormous reservoirs in unpopulated Northern Canada.
And please don't tell me reservoirs are terrible things...I can think of worse places to vacation than the Smallwood:
