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Water Challenges in Oil Sands Country: Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy In 2003, the Government of Alberta launched its Water for Life Strategy in pursuit of the three interrelated goals of ensuring a safe and secure drinking water supply, improving the health of aquatic ecosystems, and ensuring a sustainable an prosperous economy. Six years later, what has the strategy improved,…
The Art of the Possible Sometimes it is funny how things happen. A chance meeting, an exchanged business card, and a resulting whole new awareness…I met a photographer; when she gave me her card; on her card was a photo of a mandala she had taken in Houston Texas (similar to the one pictured, but not exactly the same). She…
Water: Minding the Meter Water is central to the well-being of people and their prosperity – not only to meet the obvious need for fresh water supplies of adequate quantity and quality, but also for appropriate water use and water treatment to ensure environmental sustainability. A number of thoughts have recently crossed my mind – the growing public perception that…
The vital need for water policy reform The violent demonstrations that occurred last week at the World Water Forum in Istanbul belie the seriousness of the global water crisis. Currently, human population growth is the highest in places where there is the least water. There is legitimate concern that in many parts of the world we cannot meet both agricultural…
The “new” oil (Oilweek Magazine, March, 2009) It has been amazing to watch the ascendance of water as the subject around which everything else of import circulates. Five years ago, saying the scarcity of water in southern Alberta could emerge as the potential limit to growth was met mostly with scornful responses. These days, the whole province is paying attention…