The Exportation of Fresh Water in Western Canada
Fresh water is something that almost every human, plant and animal needs to survive. Unfortunately, it is not distributed evenly throughout the world. Canada, with just one per cent of the global population, contains over 40% of the world's accessible fresh water, which means that the water is not frozen in glaciers, ice sheets, or simply too far underground to reach. In western Canada, most of the water we use comes from lakes. Vancouver, for example, gets almost all of its water from the Capalino reservoir, using 1 billion liters every…
