Canada Needs Fresh Approach to Water Supply Management for Natural Resource Sectors

The report concludes that water has real economic value and outlines the steps Canada should take to value, better manage, and sustain water use by Canada's natural resource sectors. While the report highlights that water use from the natural resource sectors totals 86% of Canada's overall water use, it also predicts an increase in water intake due of economic growth forecasted in this sector of the Canadian economy.

Charting a Course: Sustainable Water Use by Canada's Natural Resource Sectors is NRT's second report concerning sustainable water use by Canada's natural resource sectors. The first NRT report, Changing Currents, released in June 2010, identified issues that policy makers need to pay attention to, while this report demonstrates the long-term importance of getting water sustainability on the agenda of industries, governments and communities.

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