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An article from the April 22nd edition of The Globe and Mail (Report on Green Solutions - Earth Day Edition). Excerpts:
With population growth and climate change, water is likely to become the world`s dominant political issue. Scarcity has long been a problem in many parts of Africa and the Middle East and is a growing concern in the western United States. Canada is widely seen as a water-rich country, but water isn`t universally available and towns like Okotoks are the first to feel the pinch.
Because water is a limited resource, Alberta caps the amount that towns and irrigation districts can take from rivers, particularly in the South Saskatchewan River basin, where most of the province`s population lives.
For most of the last decade, Okotoks has been Canada`s second fastest-growing municipality and expects to add another 9,000 residents by 2015.
Okotoks is also one of the province`s leaders in water conservation, and has cut per capita consumption from 450-500 litres per day in the 1990s to a mere 333 litres.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...=craig+saunders
An article from the April 22nd edition of The Globe and Mail (Report on Green Solutions - Earth Day Edition). Excerpts:
With population growth and climate change, water is likely to become the world`s dominant political issue. Scarcity has long been a problem in many parts of Africa and the Middle East and is a growing concern in the western United States. Canada is widely seen as a water-rich country, but water isn`t universally available and towns like Okotoks are the first to feel the pinch.
Because water is a limited resource, Alberta caps the amount that towns and irrigation districts can take from rivers, particularly in the South Saskatchewan River basin, where most of the province`s population lives.
For most of the last decade, Okotoks has been Canada`s second fastest-growing municipality and expects to add another 9,000 residents by 2015.
Okotoks is also one of the province`s leaders in water conservation, and has cut per capita consumption from 450-500 litres per day in the 1990s to a mere 333 litres.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...=craig+saunders