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Water Conservation |
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Access to good quality water is not equally shared throughout the globe. Even in Canada, which has the largest per capita water supply in the world, water shortages can be experienced. Most Canadians live within 200 kilometres of the Canadian-American border, yet a significant portion of our water is in the northern regions of Canada. Even in Alberta, 80% of our water supply lies in the north while 80% of the water demand comes from the southern half of our province. Locally, as well as globally, disparity in the available water supply is a common theme that helps drive the need for conserving water. For most of Alberta, however, there are other reasons to conserve water that are equally important. Reprinted from Focus On Water Conservation (1993) with permission of Alberta Environment. |
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Updated July 25th, 2001 by KP |