Water security needs water intelligence

You cannot manage what you do not measure, and we simply measure less about freshwater than we used to in Canada.
Lake Laberge, a widening of the Yukon River north of Whitehorse, in the Yukon.

In Canadian cities, new homes and highways crowd out wetlands and industrial expansion takes a toll on already diminishing groundwater supplies. Large prairie cities reliant on snowmelt from the Rockies are often scrambling to cope with dwindling supplies, all while infrastr...

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