More writers began to identify the changes that were occurring in terms of ecosystem health as well as economic health. It is only our use of them that has altered. Now we fly over them, build dams on them, fish in them for sport, use them for municipal water supplies, and some of them we have poisoned with sewage and industrial effluents. . . . But the rivers are as worth knowing as they ever were, though none of us will know them as the voyageurs did. Though we will never experience Canada's rivers with the same intensity as the voyageurs, they remain essential to our way of life and our artistry.
Writers continue to look to water as subject and inspiration for their works.
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