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Karen
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Don't Sell Our Water
April 10, 2003 - 11:33 AM
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They say selling our water will make us, as a country richer. In this case it isn't true. The countries that need our clean water can't afford the expenses in which we don't earn any money. Also, after selling our water, the amount will become scarce. The people who are unable to pay will be immediately cut off the sorce of clean water. Scientists estimate that Canadians use about 326 litres of water, per person per day. Out of all the water we have, only 9% is renewable. This will decrease in amount as the amount of water decreases. As the years go on, the consumption of water is doubling very 20 years. Lately, people are believing that Canada is losing control of it's own resources so we are in no position to sell our water. The world's water supply is huge, which is a false statement. At a time and point, in the near future, water bankruptcy will result. By the year of 2025, which is less than 25 years, 2/3 of the world will be "water-poor." In this case, we shouldn't be selling our water if later down the road there won't even be any water left. Selling our water is only affordable to the the privileged and will deepen the difference between the rich and the poor. Selling water is a way of ignoring our pollution problem. This issue is an environmental issue, not a trade issue. Another case of selling our water is that massive reduction in freshwater will discharge and alter or even destroy existing ecosystem in coastal regions. Before doing something we will regret, we should think about something. The people who we are going to be selling it to, are they doing everything they can do to adjust to the fact they are running out of water? Are they jumping into conclutions that they can't survive with conserving a little bit more and using the water for their needs and not their wants? After investigating this, and seeing that they can survive without us selling the water, than this will solve the problem of selling our water to other nations.
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April 14, 2003 - 05:44 AM
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I think that in a way you are wrong. I mean think about the poor countries, if we don't sell our water then the people who don't get pure water will get all sorts of diseases and stuff.
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i disagree .....
April 15, 2003 - 10:42 AM
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I totally disagree with you, Karen. We nedd to sell our water.It was said that a child (worldwide) dies every 8 seconds because of water. The lack of water or water bacteria infected case. Countries that are interested in our water are willing to pay alot.With that money we could use it to help our country.Example for our education or our health care. By selling our water we would kill less people including children.
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I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH YOU
April 15, 2003 - 10:46 AM
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I disagree with you because , I think we should sell our water because the people in poor countries are dying from serious diseases because they are forced to drink dirty , contaminated water. Diseases will stop spreading if we give the poor countries some clean water to drink. If we don't sell our water, it might be used as an excuse later on to have war. We don't need any more wars, there is already a war in Iraq. By selling our water we are helping the poor countries. It's nice to help other countries that are in need of our water.
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
April 15, 2003 - 10:50 AM
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Karen, if we sell our water, the money we earn can cut down corporate taxes and make our healthcare better. Take factors like this inconsideration.
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I don't agree with you Arren
April 20, 2003 - 11:56 AM
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Although the money being recieved by selling our water can be an advantage to us, Karen is right... are water although is renewable but this can happen for only a part of time. Eventually all our water will be of no more. More and more people will die of dehydration... it will be almost like the end of the world.
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
May 8, 2003 - 09:24 AM
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
May 22, 2003 - 09:23 AM
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I agreee with Karen's point.
If the country is poor, how can they buy water from us?
I mean, it's obvious we are not going to sell the water at a cheap price. If the country needs water, then they could get those machines that filter salt water. Yes, I know those machines are expensive, well, so is our water!
For those people who wants to sell Canada's water, did it ever occur to you that while the population in Canada increase, the amount of water will decrease? That means we need to save our water for the future.
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
July 27, 2003 - 11:48 AM
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you are realy right .... water is the thing that one cant live without it and your country is making a great mistake by selling its water and the only one who will suffer is you the canadian people that will really suffer from lack of water... so youy must try hard to stop this .. cause you dont know what tromorrow brings to you
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
August 22, 2003 - 02:42 AM
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based on the facts u mentioned in ur thread, it seems to me that canada is gonna be at the edge of water resources in the near future. i don't know exactly about that, but if this is the case then canada shouldn't sell its water, or at least, a future plan of canada's needs for water should be established, together with the increase or decrease rate of water resources in the future. if it was found that selling water would put canada in a corner then u're not supposed to sell it, but if it appears that u won't be in that great need, then u should sell the amount that wouldn't corner u. as much as we are concerned with ourselves we must be also be concerned with our fellow humans.
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Selling Water
October 21, 2003 - 11:06 AM
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I think we should make no mistake, if Canada sells its fresh water it will be to the United States for industrial purposes not to developing countries at a discounted rate for consumption. Second, the Canadian government might not even have the choice to sell or not sell its water, as the trade rules of the WTO are such that the governments could be forced to sell their natural resources at the going rate because a refusal to do so would be in contravention of trade rules. Something to think about.
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umm..
December 14, 2003 - 06:58 AM
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water is finite meaning that it will be forever here.. the water we are drinking now can be the water you peed in or the water dinosaurs drank in the early years.. water can't go away!!! WATER IS FINITE!!! Water be contamintated and stuff.. but we can never be dehydrated.. water is finite.. it doesn't go away.. water cycle.. hello??!!?? And also.. we cant be dehydrated because there will alwayz be water.. its juss that prolly in the future our water might be contaminated but we can still drink it after filteration.. REMEMBER WATER IS FINITE.. FINITE!! finite=it can never go away.. its forever here..
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i disagree with DC1314
January 27, 2004 - 03:40 AM
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man, who in the world doesnt know water is finite? but hey, if we are to used up all drinkable water in the world, who in the world can afford buying filtration machines to sustain life? also, not all living creatures can survive without fresh water, there are fishes that live in fresh water HELLO!? and...we need fish and food to sustain life too, although we can go without food for months, but still, dont forget food!! water is the most important substance that all living creatures need! please dont forget that! i think we should sell resonable amount of water to poor countries as they cant afford machines, does anybody have morality and sympathy? i think ppl are overrun by facts that we could make profits because we can sell our water for high prices to the us, but hey, they are tons richer than us and the us can buy machines to filter their own water resource, or if they dont have water resource, go find one since they are so rich! we should keep our water to ourselves and for our future generations, and share it to the rest of the world, except the privileged countries that can have clean water to drink if they try! poor countrie really have no way out, how in the world can they afford water? and machines to clean, it's not easy, they are suffering and dying every 8 seconds in the world, and we are neglecting the fact that their population is growing faster than us and developed countries in the world, they are really dying and crying for clean water, also although water is really relaly finite, we should conserve clean water by reducing our use! who in the world doesnt know how to conserve! take ur baths in 10 mins or less, clean dishes using reasonable amounts of water instead of pumping the tap on while you are doing it, just shut the tap if you have enough to clean dishes and Canadians are putting so much more water on cars! we should take into account that if we do not conserve clean water, it will run out and the prices will go high, this will be shown in our water bills later on! in those days, we cant even afford our own water, we would simply ran out of them and maybe dying too!!
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Re: Don't Sell Our Water
February 18, 2004 - 08:07 AM
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Originally posted by x-karen-x
Also, after selling our water, the amount will become scarce.
This part I strongly agree with you
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