AREC365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Maude Barlow, Water Scarcity, Marginal Cost
21 Sep 2016
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Most water is in the north, but most people are in the south. How much is being used comsumptive used. Dominant: irrigated agriculture (2/3 of all use) Are there methods/mechanisms to trade water for use by industry, munis, etc. Problem with water scarcity: increasing concern everywhere, water to people or people to water (transportation) Problems with people to water to though: scarcity most evident in south sask bassin (consumptive use dominates) bow river. Small river, lost of use (lost of people: low flows in jan and feb (there is the danger) Do not doubt the capacity for industry to recycle water thru tech change/development. Costly (dams: not as many areas conducive to dam building. Cc is the problem: glaciers that feed rivers have been thinned out quite a bit. Cheaper this is what nat res have been saying for a long time: due to man or nature, water tied to land couldn"t buy water without buying land.
