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Time to Rethink NAWAPA
The shelving of NAWAPA may have been done for purposes of safeguarding the water sovereignty of Canada many decades ago, but recent climate disruption and the intense problems caused by seasonal runoff in the prairies - and Ontario - where annual relocation of one town costs about $20 million a year - and is creating a possibility of permanent moving to higher ground - these kinds of developments indicate that the idea of canal transport of annual prairie runoff to the depleted reservoirs and aquifers of the SW portion of the continent - may have arguments that are extremely supportive of the need for a change in policy:

1) Water that runs off farmland and areas that have tailing ponds from oil and mining are creating toxicity in water running to the oceans. If this water were canaled, to places where it was needed for the ecological well-being of this continent, the canals could be lined with Northern or Miracle moss, which purifies all contaminants out of water, making it no longer a carrier of harmful minerals and pathogens.

2) The continent needs to conserve water rather than allow the oceans to continue to overflow. The arid regions of the Earth need to be restored so that the water tables of arid regions can once again be restored to health. See the Greening the Deserts film. Or watch Episode 12 of Neil deGrasse Tyson's epic series COSMOS from last year. Episode 12 was "The World Set Free" - and it envisioned a planet that had the unfertile regions of the Earth reclaimed to a verdant condition. This was postulated as a fundamental approach to dealing with surplus carbon in the atmosphere.

3) Enabling water to be managed bio-regionally - would be the best method of keeping the water system as a commons, and would enable the people to not have to endure corporatist commodification of water. The prospect of selling water is best counteracted by the steps listed in this critique.