Canada cannot secure freshwater while overlooking groundwater

Federal leadership can make Canada’s system more coherent by having groundwater included in policy, legislation, and programs.
Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin. Canada should protect recharge areas before they are paved, polluted, or fragmented, and create a national groundwater data and monitoring framework, write Amanda Sills and Senator Rosa Galvez.

Canada speaks of freshwater as though abundance were guaranteed. It is not. Water sustains our communities, ecosystems, farms, industries, and economy, yet the country is entering a period of deeper droughts, larger floods, more intense wildfires and growing competition for ...

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