Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective On Our Water Future
is a report compiled by the University of Victoria’s POLIS
Project and Simon Fraser University’s Adaptation to Climate
Change Team. It is based largely on findings that came out of
Bob Sandford’s cross-Canada tour last fall. Sandford is one of
Canada’s foremost experts on water issues and is spending his
time promoting the idea that Canada is in great need of a
national water strategy that would set basic standards and
policies in place across our country. Each province that
Sandford visited last fall had its own particular issues in
relation to water. Here in Manitoba, I was one of the people on
the panel who spoke along with Bob. One of our greatest
challenges is the deteriorating condition of Lake Winnipeg and
some of our other lakes as a result of growing blue-green algae
blooms fouling the lakes. As well the shocking lack of clean,
safe, running water on many of our northern First Nations
communities was highlighted. When I asked Bob what h