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The Program on Water Issues

Research, analysis and dialogue on important and emerging freshwater issues.

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  • POWI Research
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Bulk Water Export

POWI’s work focuses on the need to prevent bulk water diversions and export and how it can be achieved.

See also Canada / US Transboundary and Water / Energy Nexus.

Reports & Publications

Diversion proposal doesn’t hold water

Frank Quinn Response to National Post | August 12, 2009

Water expert, Frank Quinn rebuts the Montreal economic Institute proposal for bulk water export of Quebec’s northern rivers to the US on technical, economic and ecological grounds.

A Model Act for Preserving Canada’s Water

Canadian Water Issues Council (CWIC) | February 6, 2008

A description of a model federal statute to preserve Canada’s waters from bulk removal, a statute that would be both consistent with Canada’s trade obligations and respectful of the roles of different levels of government within Canada. To see the related POWI event, please click here.

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On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration

Andrew Nikiforuk | October 16, 2007

Explores recent events relating to water export, including increasing water supply problems in the U.S. and Mexico, recent activities in Canada and the U.S. that promote the export of water from Canada, the myths of water abundance in Canada, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and the water-energy nexus in a continental context. To see the related POWI event, please click here.

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Water Diversion, Export and Canada-US Relations: A Brief History

Frank Quinn | September 10, 2007

An in-depth historical analysis of the water export issue, including the many complex factors that have led us to today’s unsettled legal and policy regime.

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Decision Time: Water Diversion Policy in the Great Lakes

Ralph Pentland and James M. Olson | September 1, 2004

An exchange between Canadian and American water experts Ralph Pentland and Jim Olson about the development of policy governing water diversion from the Great Lakes. To see the related POWI event, please click here.

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Webcasts & Events

Library of Parliament Seminar
“A Model Act to Preserve Canada’s Waters”

May 16, 2008 at 9:00 am

On Friday, May 16, 2008 the Library of Parliament convened a seminar on A Model Act to Preserve Canada’s Water that was released by the University of Toronto’s Program on Water Issues at the Munk Centre for International Studies.

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Panel Discussion
“A Model Act for Preserving Canada’s Waters”
Canadian Water Issues Council

February 6, 2008 at 9:30 am

This 2008 panel discussion of the paper, “A Model Act for Preserving Canada’s Waters”, focused on the central public policy question: are there options available to Canada to deter bulk water removals that are both consistent with Canada’s trade obligations and desirable from other public policy perspectives?

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Panel Discussion
“Water, Energy and North American Integration”
Andrew Nikiforuk

September 10, 2007 at 9:00 am

Drawing on expertise from various perspectives, this 2007 “day of discussion” was designed to raise issues and stimulate dialogue on emerging domestic, bilateral and continental water policies of significance to Canadians.

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Media & News

Water export bill leaky, critics say

Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail | June 3, 2010

Media coverage of the Canadian Water Issues Council critique of Bill C-26, which is intended to prevent bulk water export.

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Water bill wouldn’t stop U.S. from draining Canada’s rivers, experts warn

Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail | June 2, 2010

Media coverage of the Canadian Water Issues Council critique of Bill C-26, which is intended to prevent bulk water export.

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Quebec think-tank favours water exports

John Partridge, Globe & Mail | August 27, 2008

The Montreal Economic Institute wades into the bulk water export issue, asserting that “large-scale exports of fresh water would be a wealth-creating idea for Quebec and for Canada as a whole”.

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Library of Parliament Seminar: A Model Act to Preserve Canada’s Water

Library of Parliament, Parliament of Canada | May 16, 2008

Text of presentation and discussion of POWI’s A Model Act to Preserve Canada’s Water at the Library of Parliament Seminar, May 16, 2008.

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To Block Exports of Water in Bulk

Editorial, The Globe and Mail | February 11, 2008

Globe and Mail editorial supporting prompt federal action to protect Canada’s water from bull water exports.

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