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WATER

Here on the B.C. coast
we've never had much
reason to get uptight about
water, except when too
much of it descends too fast

and floods the basement. It

may come as a_ shock,
therefore, to learn that water

supply problems will become .

Canada’s next major
headache. .
As ‘every clementary

of water (in case you've ever
wondered) is presently over
26 billion gallons per day. By
the year 2000 they calculate
it will have risen to 62 billion

_ gallons daily.

Nor can our addiction to ©.
‘and

the daily
automatic

shower

washer be

_ blamed. Eighty per cent of

-all the water used in Canada

‘school child learns, Canada |

has nine per cent of all the

fresh water ‘on the planet:-

But believe it or not, several’:

parts of Canada are
beginning to run short of the
stuff. And below the border
the Americans are in even
worse shape.

So we'd better start
worrying about water, and
fast. That’s the message from
two eminent B.C.
geographers, Harold Foster
and Derrick Sewell, at the
University of Victoria. Their
real-life thriller ‘entitled
Water: The Emerging Crisis
In Canada has just been
‘published by the non-profit

Canadian Institute for

Economic Policy.
INDUSTRY
TAKES 80%

The problem, say the

authors, is caused by two
factors: increasing demand
and) worsening pollution.
Canada's total consumption

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7

_is soaked up by industry — no

less than 48 per cent of it to

‘cool power stations and
per cent by.

another 32
Manufacturers. .
Southern Ontario, ac-
cording to Foster and

Sewell, faces the greatest

danger of the taps running
dry. The average annual
reliable water flow in the
region is seven billion
gallons a day. Last year they
were already using 8.3
billion gallons a day. In a
couple of decades, if things
go on the’ way they are
going, the figure is expected
to reach nearly 22 billion
gallons -- three. times the

present dependable supply.
The situation is being
made

even worse’ by

pollution ,acid rain! damage

and industrial © wastes
thousands of tons of which,
in liquid form, find their way

ome

daily into southern Ontario |

water sources.

Foster and Sewell name
five other areas: that will
suffer water shortages in the

ae

_

Noel Wright
next 20 years, including the.

t

Ay

Prairie grain belts and B,C.'s | ;
‘Canada had better get

Okanagan Valley. But the
really thought 7. provoking
part of their study concerns
the U.S., already plagued by
shortagesin many regions.

THIRSTY EYES |

Carbon dioxide from the.
burning of fossil fuels could
compound the existing
problems of excessive water

use and water pollution by
making the climate |
significantly drier over the
next few decades, Foster. and
Sewell foresee dustbowl
conditions on the great
plains and frequent droughts
in the Midwest. so

Eventually they envisage

‘
tk

Canadian Prairies, .
“It would involve 240 ner
reservoirs, some with ‘dar
nearly 1,000: ft,.highy
would include a'spectacu:
Rocky © Mountain: : Trench
reservoir, 1,300. miles
stretching from the Yukon

ure to obtain Cal
water will grow — and

analyzing its water.
in detail. in order. é

just what we do when
American: :neighbors.
knocking loudly on the
If F, and S..are right
be long before that happe
“Meanwhile,
Vancouver's rain.-
haven't spoiled your

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the possibility of the U.S. 14

being hardly able to meet its
own food needs -- with its.
‘inability to export grain also |