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Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:06 AM
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Don't sell our water!
April 4, 2003 - 01:02 AM
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I think we should not sell our water.We are running out of fresh water supply.In the future we won't have drinkable water left.We should save our fresh water!
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DON'T SELL CANADA'S WATER
April 4, 2003 - 04:09 AM
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I think that Canada should not sell it's water because people in Canada need the water. They need 350 liters of water a day per capita. Canada's supply of fresh vary from 5.6 per cent to nine per cent to 20 per cent of the world's supply. All the water on the planet is 97.5 per cent salt water and 2.5 percent is locked in the polar ice caps. The amount of water on Earth has remained the same for the past four million years. Water will be "the oil in the 21 century", "liquid gold", and that will cause wars between nations.
In Newfoundland people died becuse there was less water. Canadians also need water for farming(vegetables,fruits), for drinking, and for sanitation. Since Canada has the largest supply of fresh water, can't Russia, China, and Brazil trade there water supply. In the future Canadians will need water because it will all go alway once. Water is also a vital resource like the air we breathe,not for being sold or trading.
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Conserving and Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:27 AM
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The sources of fresh water are lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, and wetlands. They are renewable because when it rains, hails, and snows and it melts the water flows back into the fresh water sources. Canadians use the water very wastefully. They waste water from such things as leaky taps, using too much water to wash dishes or take a shower, and washing their car too much. Canada's rivers and lakes hold enough water to flood all of Canada with 2 metres of water. Developing countries in the world wish they could have that much water but they don't, and that's why I think it's a good idea to sell it to countries how that want and need money. Other countries in the world probably use their water almost the same way we do, but they don't sell it. By Canada selling the water they can bring in more money, which can help find cures for such diseases as SARS. The article compared Canada's water to gold and oil because they are both non-renewable sources. Only some water is renewable, that is why we can't afford to sell it and waste it like we are doing now. If gold and oil were renewable a lot more countries would be rich because they would never have to worry about running out, or worrying about how much they give to other places in the world. They're starting to call water "liquid gold" because it is going so fast and people are not realizing that it is not renewable! The are also comparing it because eventually when the water starts to disappear and people might start having fights over water. That could lead to another war.
Water is a valuable thing that many Torontonians take for granted. Since 2001 Canada's water has continuously been sold to our biggest buyer, the United States of America. If we choose not to sell our water other countries especially the united states might find us greedy and will punish or not help Canada in its times of need. I hope eventually Canada's government will band selling water to other countries, because when it is all used up, Canada will have nothing left to use.
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Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:29 AM
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I think Canada should sell its water because Canada is among the top countries for having the most fresh water, and most developing coutries lack water supply.
Canada should also export water because if we were to export some water to a country, the water would be naturally replenished due to the water cycle, therefore no water would be lost.
One of the main reasons to why Canada should sell its water is because Canadians rank second in wasting water. An average global citizen only needs 20-40 litres of water each day for drinking and sanitation, but Canadians use 350 litres, which is alot. The water that is wasted could help other countries that need water.
Selling water will give Canada a good reputation because not only would they supply countries with water they will also save their lives.
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Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:29 AM
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Canada has one of the world's largest fresh water resources. Of all the water on our planet, 97.5 % is sea water and 2.5% is locked in polar ice caps. The leftover is drinkable.
Most of the countries need water for the sake of their life. The countries that I think needs fresh water is Srilanka and India. Their water bottle doesn't taste right and thier tap water is disgusting.
I think water is renewable because people like teachers or even cousins uses wells and they told me water comes from underground. So you can't actually say water will finish, but thanks to the soil and the sun, the water will never finish.
I think you can waste water even though it comes from underground. Like leaving the tap on and taking long baths. First of all it is not free and secondly you are wasting lots of water.
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Selling Canada's water
April 4, 2003 - 09:30 AM
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I am writing this statment about our water. On how we could renew water. Also what countries might have interest in purchasing our water.
Water is renewable because of precipitation and snow. Precipitation and snow is just water, they might contain bacteria. But then you can filter it again, and again at a factory so it would be clean enough to drink. This idea works, also we have plenty of snow and precipitation. Well sort of, during winter and rainy days.
Other countries that might have interest of purchasing our water would be countries that doesn't have any major lakes or oceans near their area, or even close to it. For example Mexico is very dry. So is Africa there place is dry too. Those 2 countries has very poor water supply. Also other dry countries as well or countries that waste there water too much, they run out of water. That's Possible.
To conclude my statement i wanna see that we do have a lot of water. We have the Pacific Ocean on the west coast and on the east coast we have the Atlantic Ocean. People think we can't renew water. But actually we could. Also dry countries has interest in purchasing our water.
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CaNaDa N0!
April 4, 2003 - 09:32 AM
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In my opinion, I don't think Canada should sell it's water. Why Canada? Yes, we have the water, but only a certain percent is drinkable. Many countries may need it more than us right now, but years from now we may need it, and there wil be no more. Although it's renewable, percipatation does not occur in the same area.
If we don't sell it, Canada will have conflicts with many countries, but they should not hate us because Canada doesn't want to sell it's water . We have the right not to sell it.
Therefore i believe that Canada shouldn't have to sell it's water. If they need fresh water, there are many other countries which has it.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:34 AM
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I do not think that Canada should sell their fresh water supply. We are already wasting water everyday, by using 350L of water a day. The average person only uses 20L to 40L of water a day.
I understand if we do sell our water to those countries that don't have easy access, we will make some profit. Those countries that don't have easy access would be interested in buying water from us. But in the future water will become limited, and we need the water too.
The reasons I don't think we should sell our water is because, there would be conflicts between those who can buy and those who can't buy. Those who can buy would be able to purchase water from us. But the poorer countries might not be able to purchase the water because they can't afford it.
The water could become limited in the future, and if we sell our water than there would be less water in the future.
Yes, some countries have very limited supply of water, and if we gave the water to them for a lower price because they can't afford what we're asking, other countries would be angry and want the lower price also. This will cause a big conflict over prices.
In conclusion I don't think Canada should sell their water because it will cause a conflict between countries and water may become limited in the future.
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Water: How humans waste it.
April 4, 2003 - 09:34 AM
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Conserving water is important. Water is a compelling source. It is equally important as air.
A Canadian uses about 350 L a day. Water is slowly running out. Water is running out so fast that we are recycling it. Canada has about 15% of the worlds fresh water. North Americans especially use the most water. The average human uses about 40 L. Toronto citizens drink from the repulsive Lake Ontario. Not only does Toronto’s human waste go in Lake Ontario, but there's garbage there too. The once pure and fresh water is reduced to a pile of diseased infected liquid. The Walker ton incident left many Canadians terrified to drink tap water. They say that in the future if man-kind does not conserve water, wars we’ll occur. That is possible. They say that in the 21 first century that water will have the same value as oil or liquid gold. That is also possible. All i know is that these problems are occurring because of humans...
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:35 AM
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The availability of clean water varies greatly around the world, from more than 500 000 cubic metres per person in Canada to less than 100 cubic metres in Kuwait and the Gaza Strip, and just because these people don't have enough water doesn't mean that they can live without it. Each day 6000 people around the world die from water shortages. Sometimes we should also look at the well being of others than just ourselves. By selling a little amount of water Canada can help other countries as well as make some money. Canada is rated second after Finland for the world's highest amount of fresh water, it possesses 20 percent of all the world's water and 9 percent of it is renewable. Canada byes resourse that are also very valuble, like oil from other countries, because it is needed to make the Canadain life easier, so why can't we sell our water to other counties to even save some lifes.
According to a report by Enviornment Canada, Canadians don't pay enough for water to cover the cost of municipal water and wastewater services, so if Canada charge the other countries the proper rate they can make up for the losts. The countries need and want the water so badly that they are willing to pay any price (only the ones that can afford it) to buy the water. The extra money that Canada earns could be used to research ways we can keep the Canadain water clean and protect it from pollusion and micro-organisms.
If Canada decides to sell it's water than more job opportunties will open for Canadians and for people that live in the country that are buying the water from us because we would need people to help transport the water to its location.
Water is becoming very valuble, countries that are beggining to suffer might start a war aganst Canada for not selling it's water, or they might get jealous, and drop missles in our water system. Water shortages could form many unknown desieases, when immigrants come from these countries, to Canada it could spread and kill many Canadains.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:36 AM
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Canada is one of the water-rich countries with 15 - 20% of the world's fresh water supply, but we can't be too careful in conserving our water.
It's true, we have five Great Lakes and two large oceans on either side of us to obtain our water from, but very little of that great amount can be acually "fresh" and "drinkable". So people should realize what will happen as the years move along. We should not be able to sell our water to other nations to make a profit. We Canadians should realize where all their is going and think ahead.
Water is one of our most valuable resources. We use it for many jobs: to clean, to wash our food, our toilets, etc. All those things take an awful lot of water. And don't forget about the environmemt. What if there was a sudden drought? Plants and animals are living things too and they also need to survive.
Every time you take a shower - how long does the water keep on running until you are actually in the tub? It is ture, the world's amount of water has not changed for such a long time, so you want to keep it that way. The amount of might change if we sell large amounts of Canada's water and not think about what the future will bring. And what will Canada get out of selling water to other countries anyway?
Canadians should act now and start thinking about what to do for the furture before it's too late.
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Canada conserving and selling its Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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As we all know Canada has one of the worlds most fresh-water supply. We have 20% of it , but only about 9% could be renewed. On my opinion I think that we should only give water away if we get a fair price for it.
The money we recieve from selling our water could help us in many places. I think that we should ask all the nations that we supply our water to give us money because as already mentioned if we ask some for money and others not this could cause war between nations. That's what we have to be careful about when selling and coming into this business.
We should not sell all the water we should reserve and save some for ourselves because one day that might help us. I think thaat we should be careful about how much we sell because if we sell too much and the nation cannot afford to pay for it after the water been already used , this could cause war.
As we know we waste a lot of water a day, we could possibly run out so that is why we need to save some water fof our -selves because we don't know how much time it would take to renew our water supply again.
I think that Canadians use water waste-fully but it might not be their fault because we have a lot of leaky taps , sometimes we forget to turn taps on or we have to wait sometimes leaving the taps on to get the temprature we want.
We need that money we could get from selling the water because we need all the money we could get. Using that we could open new jobs. That is all I have to say about this.
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We Should Sell Our Water!!
April 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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We are near the top of water-rich nations. There are many rivers in Canada full of fresh water emptying into the seas. This water gets lost forever! The truth is that Canada occupies 7% of the world's land mass and has 9% of it's renewable water. Canada has 20% of world's fresh water. We should share it.
It's good to sell our water because the citizens know that we have lot's of water; therefore they feel free to waste it. Why be stupied and waste the water when we can sell it to a country that is in need of fresh water.
In other words, we Canadians have lot's of water, but most of it is where it's not needed. It is mostly in the populated areas of the country where most of the water is becoming populated and unusable. Instead of letting the water sit there and get affected we can sell this water to foreign countries and make money.
We could make good profit off this business. Since we have money coming from other countries, this money could go towards constructing better hospitals. It can also be used for the education for childern; providing more trips and extra circular activities, and lower tuition fees for students and books could be much cheaper.
By selling our water we could open an industry. People who are umemployed will now get jobs like cleaning and packing the water before exporting it out to comsumers.
More than 5 million people die each year from diseases caused by polluted water. We could help solve this problem and save lives at the same time.
We could trade our water for other products from our consumers instead of taking money. The advantage is that we could give our trading partners water for their items.
Since we have so much water, our country will be known worldwide for selling it's water. Other nations will always remember us for the good deeds that we are doing. Canada will be famous for the best fresh water.
Water is a vital resource like the air we breath in. It belongs to everyone yet no one really owns it. If we don't share our water, it can cause wars between nations. Canada could have enemies invading them for water. Therefore it's better to give before something happens.
Compared to other countries we have a large percentage of fresh water.However, don't you think it is our responsibility to share this gift with others!!!
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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A question has been raised during this generation: Should Canada sell its precious water supply to foreign countries?
First of all, Canadains in Canada use a lot of water every day, much more than the average of a global citizen. If Canadians choose to sell its water supply to other countries,and continue using water at the rate of 350 litres per capita every day, there will soon be no water left for Canadians to use,let alone sell it to make profit.
Second of all, Canada's water supply is limited, freshwater in this world is really valuable, it's like liquid gold. It is true that the money gained from Canada selling its water is a large amount, and can be put to good use to help improve the lives of Canadians, but in my opinion, I think that Canadians need the freshwater supply more than the money.
In conclusion, I feel that Canada should be "greedy" and not sell its water to foreign countries, and save it for its citizens. In the 21st century, freshwater supply is just as important as money.
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