Water Policy in Canada Problems and Possible Solutions
This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada. It discusses various problems and risks in the fresh and drinking water supply in the second largest country in the world. Mohammed Dore argues that water is underpriced and used wastefully i
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Mohammed H. Dore
Water Policy in Canada Problems and Possible Solutions
Springer Water
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Mohammed H. Dore
Water Policy in Canada Problems and Possible Solutions
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Mohammed H. Dore Climate Change Laboratory, Department of Economics Brock University St. Catharines, ON Canada
Springer Water ISBN 978-3-319-15882-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15883-9
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For my daughters and their partners: Sophia and Andy; Roshan and Joe; Naomi and Mark. May they and our grandchildren do what they can for a clean environment and clean water.
Foreword
On the Difference Between Promise and Practice: Water Policy in Canada As the famous American water scholar Helen Ingram regularly pointed out, there is often a big difference between promise and practice in the delivery of water policy. Nowhere, it appears, is that more so than in Canada where we have managed to superimpose a myth of effective management over a myth of limitless abundance. While we often tell ourselves that we are world leaders in various aspects of water management, thorough, objective analysis such as that provided in this book reveals that except in rare cases we are not doing what we say we are doing or even meeting the standards that we ourselves set with respect to the protection of water quality. Though not the first comprehensive analysis of water resource policy in Canada, this is clearly one of the best researched and most readable. It begins by examining the record of waterborne disease outbreaks in developed countries where cholera and typhoid have been eradicated but other pr
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