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Canada Should Sell Its Water at a Reasonable Price
April 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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Canada has alot of water so why not share it? The water in Canada comes from many different sources like the Great Lakes, the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, Hudson bay and James Bay, rivers and snow.
We can renew our water through our high tech machines. For exaple filtration systems filter the water from our oceans into fresh water. Also the water that has entered the Great Lakes is always filtered to make it very clean. This clean water makes Canadians take it for granted. Canadians are very wasteful water users. The average person only needs 20 to 40 litres of water a day. But Canada uses 350 litres a day! They waste all of this water through leaky taps, long baths or showers, letting the water run for a little while before they use it, and just playing with water for fun. Most people in the world don't even have water to drink. But Canadians waste all that extra water which they could be giving to people who need it. Canadians take water for granted even though they know they shouldn't.
The government is now comparing water to "liquid gold" which in other words mean that water has a very high value and you know what! water is very valuable because it is a source of life that people need or they'll die. Now in the modern world the population is rising and that means there's less water for the poor countries that really need it.
Canada should sell its water but at a reasonable price. Canada has been selling its water to the United States but that's because the U.S. can afford it. But what about countries who can't afford the high prices. Sure Canada has been giving some water to poor countries but is it enough? Just to countries in a life or death situation should Canada sell its water at a low price.
Canada must sell its water at a cheap price.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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I'm completly against selling our water. It's a natural resource it's found just about anywhere in the world. If a countrys' water isn't drinkable then spend money on cleaning the water. Instead of using it on things that aren't essential. If Canada has a considerable amount of water, than give some of it to the countries with very little.
Liquid gold. I for one would not be surprised if drinkable water became scarcer and more hard to come by.The reason we have this problem is because our governments decides dump garbage into water. Then take the water and put litres of chorlene into it. For billions of years everything always had enough water until now.
Our polution and garbage will eventually eliminate us if we don't stop destroying our water sources. We all be more conservitive.
If humans don't have enough water neither will animals. We have to take into account that other creatures will suffer because of our stupidity.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:40 AM
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I'm agianst selling Canadas water to other countries.
It's unbelievable that we're selling water to other countries.At high prices too!It was free along time ago and now countries fight over it.I think it's ridiculous that water has done to us.The Americians should be finding their water somewhere else!It's a natural resource.It should be free!!!
It's now a very valuable resource.It started about 30-40
years ago. About 20% of the worlds fresh water is in Canada. I think that they should invent a machine to clean undrinkable water.
We as responsible people shouldn't waste water. there are many ways we can conserve it.We should only use what's needed.In the future we won't have mush drinkable water left.We're also causing problems for nature and polluting the water.
We can only conserve water and hope for the best .
I'm still unclear of what to do about it.This is my opinion
on this issue.Other people might feel differently about this.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:41 AM
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I think Canada shouldn't sell their water because other countries waste their water and think they can get more from other countries but they are wrong.It is true that Canada has a lot of water but we don't waste it like others.
If I were asked to sell my water to countries or states like America I would only give bottles of water.But countries like Africa ran out of water so I would send a cargo of water because they live in a hot region and they need it more than other countries.
If water is now called "liquid gold" then that would mean that water is on the rise and could cause wars.Canada is using their water wisely by filtering every bit of water,other countries may not have good filters so they might have to throw away their used water.
Some factors that make Canada popular with water is:Canada has big oceans like the Pacific Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean so water is plenty.canada also has underground and big rivers like the Mackenzie River.Also Canada a big filtration system that filters our wasted and used water.
We also get our water from rain and heavy falls of snow.So when the snow melts it increases the capacity of water.
One day when the other countries learn how to reuse and not waste their water, maybe Canada could actually sell their water to others.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:41 AM
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Canada has the most water supply in North America. So much that people had been thinking of selling them to other countries with out clean water. Should we sell our fresh water?
I am against the idea of selling fresh water. Water is renewable only to a certain point. Meaning if more water were used than the source could renew, those volume of water will be lost forever. For example, the Great Lakes could renew 1% of the total volume of water.
If we keep on wasting water like we are doing now, our surface fresh water could be diminish in the next century. If Canada sells the fresh water now, and is left with nothing, the cost of desalination will be more than the profit we would get now.
So, it's better to keep our fresh water now and save it for the next generation than it is to sell it off to some country. The profit we could make now could cost us forever.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:50 AM
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Canada has the largest fresh water resources. That is one of the reasons I feel we should sell water.
Canada is surrounded by water (except the bottom). Our resources are: Atlantic , Pacific , and Arctic Ocean. There are also the Great Lakes and the Little Rivers. Some places barley have any water . Some people may be wastefulby leaving the tap on while brushing thier teeth, but they really dont realize it .
The conserving and selling Canada's water article says' that in the future water is going to be like 'liquid gold". I don't beleive this is true because water is renewable . It can be renwed by percipitation. Rain,is already like water but needs only needs to be filterd to be able to drink . Hail and snow needs to be heated and filtered.
Another reason we should sell the water is because other counteries trade us stuff that we don't or barly have, such as oil. If we hogged all our water they might as well hog alltheir stuff too!
Over all my opinion is that we should sell and trade our water.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 09:56 AM
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All the people claming that they are against selling water to other countries make the statemebt of keeping our supply of water for the future. That is good of them to think ahead, but what about the people who need it NOW? Are we actually willing to allow people to die from thirst, just to save us from what could possibly happen in the future? Water IS renewable. Some of the water we drink is thousands, even millions of years old! if water can last that long then don't you think it will still be around for the next few centuries? of course it will. Also, people think that poverty-stricken countries can pay to get their water cleaned, but what if they can't? They shouldn't have to suffer just because they dont have enough money. Also, if these countries are not able to pay Canada with money, they may be able to pay with natural resources such as oil. Let's help these people today, and maybe in the future they will be able to help US.
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 10:13 AM
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Conserving And Selling Canada’s Water Based on the cycle of condensation, evaporation and precipitation, our water supply and system is remaining the sane for years. 97.5% of our water supply is sea water, which is also salt water. 2.5% of the 100% is fresh water that is locked up in ice caps. The remaining amount (0.5%) is drinkable fresh water. Canada is said to have 20% of the world’s fresh water. Canada is located near big amount of water. Only 9% of the 20% of our fresh water is renewable. An average citizen needs 20-40 litres of water each day, for drinking and sanitation. Water is a resource that is neede by everyone in the world. Pople would eventually suffer without water wupply. It is said that water would sooner or later cause wars between different nations. Every country in the world would need water. There are opinions going on to see if Canada should sell its water supply to other countries. Lakes, rivers and streams give us our fresh water supply. Canadians often leave taps running, which means Canadians are wasteful. Canadians use water for several things, showers, washrooms, kitchen, washing machines etc. Even though water is renewable, only 9% out of the 20% is renewable. Mostly, other countries use it for drinkage and bathing. Liquid gold can refer to water as being really important to us in the 21sr Century. Water (that is drinkable) are eventually decreasing. Therefore, if water is needed and if we have a shorter supply, water would be really valuable. By selling Canada’s water, we could gradually get more income, trade for other natural resources and help out other countries and people. Countries that are short of water and is nearly developed would want be interested in buying Canada’s water supply. Also, countries with money, wuld also be interested in buying Canada’s water. People in the 21st century, try tp prevent people from throwing garbage and wastes int our fresh water system.
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It called desalination
April 4, 2003 - 10:16 AM
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You people are saying thart the water is being wasted but that is not the case. It is being reused by going down the drain and back into the lakes and then in gets replenished and gets reused. So i don't get how u people are getting the fact that the water is being wasted! I admit we as canadians drink alot of water but how is that wasting water? Is it not being put to good use? I mean in countries such as Iraq they throw oil into the4 lakes. That is wasting water but we are not wasting it. Leaving the tap on does not mean wasting water. And th ecosystem. Are u people willing to save one ecosystem or the cost of our own ecosystem. And i am not being selfish, i am actully being helpful. Won’t it cost less to just filter the salt out of the water and use that water. We are ripping off countries by selling them water that is being imported into their country. They have also found out ways to make water out of thin H20. Scientists have predictd that by the yar 2050 the people in canada will face water shortages. u people are saying that we are using alot of water, and doesn’t that mean that we should not sell our water because just because we sell the water does not mean that we are going to stop “wasting” the water. Canada will face water extinction. If we realize that we are doing something wrong later and we try to top selling countries water then we will enrage the other countries. This may start a full out war on Canada. Countries that do buy the water will be only the rich people they will misuse their own water because they have got us. They will become dependant on us. If we do sell the water then we will be taking alot of water out of our precious lakes. this will cause alot of water plants to die and that will start a chain reaction. Without the plants some ish will die and the fish that eat those fish will die and other animals that eat that fish will die and we may face a really big problem!
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Re: Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 10:18 AM
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I disagree with turning water into a common commodity. Water is too much a vital and precious heritage too sell. Although Canada has nearly 20% of the earth's total fresh water supply only 9% of it is renewable throught the hydrological cycle. Canadian's consumption is excpenetionnel. A average canadian, after research consumes abou 325-350L of water per day. Though the United Nations say an normal average person should only need 20-40L of water per day. Rather a large difference in usage of water. We should conserve our water since the UN believes after extensive research that in the year 2050 the whole world will be drained of water. Our own communties are suffereing from water shortages and polluted water. We shouldn't ignore our own water issues when ourpeople are dying because of our greed and thirst for more economical wealth.
As Noted by many canadians and americans are the most profligate wasters of water. Though selling water would increase our economy the water would most probably not go to those poverty striken countries who need the water most. Instead it would go to the more wealthier countries that are more wasteful of the vital resource. Water expense is on the arise since many countries are demanding for it and we have the most bountiful supply of it. Many countries such as USA have been demanding our generousity, but we have denied there demands for a reason. That reason is because if we begin large scale exports of water it could endanger the ecological balance. The great lakes have been at their lowest levels since 1969. If we choose to begin a large scale transfer of water it would only contribute to the destruction of our great lakes. We depend on water from canada to support us. We will need to conserve the water when the time comes when we need it most. Many others have desires for it, but it isn't worth endangering our future and the enviorments surrounding us. Many marine life depend on water maintaining at good levels.We share this water and we should think before we act.
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Water shouldn't be sold!!!
April 4, 2003 - 10:22 AM
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I believe that Canada's water shouldn't be sold. We maybe saving lives by exporting Canada's water but we are risking our own lives because in the future we may run out of water. For over 4 billion years there hasn't been a problem about water but now there is because alot of people wan't it and it is belived that "water is the oil of the 21st centry". Over 4 biullion yers the amount of water has stayed the same becase of the water cycle but if we start selling our water soon the amount will decrease. An average citizen of the North America uses only between 20 to 40 litres of water and if every citizen uses it wouldn't be enough for our selves. Currently Canda is selling its water bottled. If evem a little bit of mess get into it, we will be blamed. It is possible for a war to start.
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Selling Canada's Water
April 4, 2003 - 11:08 AM
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There is a lot of water in Canada. We should sell the water because we have so much and other countries are running out or they don''t even have any. We could conserve the water and use only what is needed. If the whole world conserves water then everyone will have enough to live. Did u no that we use 40% of our water to just flush the toilet. That is such a waste.
If we sell the water it won't do Canadians any harm or water shortages. Since through the process of the water cycle. If we sell the water to other countries condensation will bring it back to us. So we will have a better economy with really losing anything at all.
Just for your interest did you no that 40% of our water is used for toilet flushing, 30% for bath and showers, 14% for laundry, dishwashing uses 6%, 5% for cooking and drinking and the last 3% for bathroom sinks.
From the information above you can see how we waste our on things that are not really nessasary. Even if it may be nessasary we don't need to use so much on it.
So don't you think we should sell our water.
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Not everything's for sale, somethings are too precious to sell, like our water.
April 4, 2003 - 11:08 AM
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Personally, I don't want to sell our water. They can trade oil with our water. That's one benefit. We can survive without oil, but we can never survive without water. There are lots of countries in the world that need water. Canada's water is not going to be enough for all those people. If we export lots of our water to other countries, and they still don't have enough, we can't do anything then because we don't even have enough for ourselves. Then there is the option of selling our water instead of trading it. If we are going to sell it, it's going to be expensive. Most people will not be able to afford it. Only rich people can afford the water, and there aren't much rich people in the world. So it doesn't solve the problem. Canada may get rich by selling our water, but without water, you are going to die. What's the point of having all that money? You can't buy more water using the money because there are NONE left! Once our water is exported, we need to keep on exporting it, and we don't have an endless supply of water so we're going to run out of water eventually.
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Selling Canada's Freshwater
April 4, 2003 - 11:08 AM
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We should sell Canada's freshwater because it can boom our economy and help the needy countries at the same time. The freshwater in Canada is the 'oil of the 21st century' or 'liquid gold'. Imagine how much money will made, this can help us in many factors. We can improve our transportation, education, and system of government. We can also use the water for profit, like timber, oil, gas and etc. We have a lot of freshwater that is not in use, why not sell that. In Africa, a lot of the people are dying because of thirst or the constant droughts. Water is an essential factor to our body and selling water to those who need it, like the people in Africa, can save lives. It is also told that not selling our water could cause wars. We do not want that either, our motto is peace, and that we should carry. The money we make can go to cleaning the freshwater, getting more freshwater and filtering saltwater into freshwater. It makes a lot of sense when you think about. If we don't sell some now, we may never get a chance to. Water doesn't always come back to where it was, sometimes it goes somewhere else. One year we may have a lot of water and another year not as much. We should use the chance when we have it. We should sell the water and make the profit. In the future , freshwater will become scarce, we can sell it for a reasonable price. Countries will buy it, if there is no other source. Selling our will not bring any animosities, but instead trading bonds with many countries, including the U.S and other major countries in commerce. Selling water is the best idea for our country.
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SeLLiNg CaNaDa's WaTeR
April 4, 2003 - 11:08 AM
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I think that Canada should sell its fresh water. Canada is very close to the top of water-rich countries. Canada should sell it's water because it could pay off the debts. There would be enough money for education and teachers wouldn't have to be on strike all the time. Also, selling water would save a lot of lives in other 3rd world countries that need that water. The average Canadian uses 350L a day per person. Normally, a person is suppose to use only 20-40 L of water a day. Canadians are taking water for granted and other people don't even have water. Americans are wasting the most water, so we should start to sell it to others who need it before it runs out. Selling our water would mean that there will be no conflicts and wars between nations about water supply. If Canada starts to sell it's water now, then most of countries would not have conflicts with Canada about water supply.
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