HGP250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Oldman River, Acid Rain, Conservation Easement
17 Dec 2020
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Bow river joins anoteh rirver oldman river and becomes south sasketwhewan. 1. 6 mil people drink bow river wter. Hydroelectric powerm agriculture, 3 irrigation districts (crops grazing land) Supplies water to 400 farms and many households. License on bow river water usage 2006. Largest user hydroelectries damsn, cities and towns, irrigation districts. Improves e ciency in irrigation districts using newer technologies. They xed open canals (water pipelines 50 km in length) and spent mil for that. Bankable: could save up for next year. Let them come up with ways to be more e cnet. When gases like so2 and no2 go into the atmosphere they react with water oxygen and other chemical they make sox nox. Clean air act 1990 tradeable permits. Instead of teling how to reduce pollution, they get permits of amount of pollution they can produce. Reducing pollution in this way has a lower cost. Reduce exactly same amount of pollution by using fewer other resources.
