Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Toxic Water in
Canada
- Thesis: Canada is not distributing it's water source in an efficient manner.
- Canada isn't using up its natural water source
fairly
- Consumption rates are
too high, 335L of water a
day
- Only behind America
in water usage, more
than double Europe's
consumption
- Not all of Canada's
water is renewable or usable
- 60 percent of fresh
water drain northward;
furthest from where it's
needed
- Water consumption rates are increasing
- Make damages worse and
worse, Canada specifically is
doing this while other countries
(USA) are planning on
decreasing their consumption
rates
- Mining and Extractive Industries in Canada
pose a severe threat to the water resources
- Fracking is ruining the
environment and is occurring
because it provides natural
gas
- Requires very high water use, poses
serious threats to ground water and local
drinking water
- Clean up costs are extremely high
- Creating loopholes to avoid
paying the price for
expensive illegal actions
- Lake dumping effects on the water
- negative effects on aquatic
lives; 500 times the safety limit
for contaminants
- The Natives of Canada aren't receiving the same
rights when it comes to their water
- Provincial and Federal governments
are not doing enough to help out
- They fought over who's
responsibility it was to deal with
the water issue instead of fixing it
first; ultimately saving the health
of damaged first nations people
- Face extreme medical issues
- Due to the E.coli levels
found in water; skin
diseases like scabies and
impetigo occured
- There everyday lives had been
changed for the worse
- Mining companies are invading
their space, resort to outhouses,
have to deal with water with
toxic tailings