More than five million people, mostly children, die every year from bad drinking water. The effects on wildlife and biodiversity is beyond tragic. So has Canada. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today. There are few rivers left to dam.
Aquifers are in crisis.
Though we are not in the habit of facing the truths about the limits of our planet, we must. There's only so much water. It should not be privatized or traded or globalized. Leave water where nature put it, in its own watershed, as part of larger ecological systems. Decisions about its use should be localized.