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| 100 meter deep band of waterlogged sandy material that stretches from South Dakota to Texas. |
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| International Joint Commission |
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| is an independent Canada-U.S. body that helps the two countries manage the Great Lakes. |
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| Is a system that delivers water to plants. |
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| Trihalomethane is a byproduct of using chlorine to disinfect drinking water. |
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| cram thousands of animals to produce massive amounts of excrement, which ends up in groundwater. |
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Canada environmental law association
in charge of:
-ensuring water quality is in the hands of municipal government
-for testing and training lab technicians, and funding for environmental regulators. |
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| the fall of the great lakes |
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100 quadrillion litres of water between
1998 and 2000 due to lack of rain and snow |
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| how does farming contribute to water pollution |
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| fertilizers and pesticides |
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| how does water compare to cola, milk, bottled water, or wine |
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| walkerton ontario, or north battleford, sascatchewan |
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| what percentage of canada's freshwater drains north? |
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| what percentage that falls on land is available to sustain human life? |
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| what was the scientist to discover the water formula? |
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| stanislao cannizzarro in 1860 |
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| why is dependance on irrigation so risky? |
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because irrigation produces 2/5 of the world's food, but is less than 1/5 of the world's cropland
irrigated land will eventually become depleted from producing two or three crops a year, the water it needs is becoming scarce as it is also needed for industrial, urban, and environmental use. |
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| why is pH of water so important |
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| affects plant and animal life |
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| what is the purpose of IJC? what do they suggest? |
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International joint commission
an independent Canada-U.S. body that helps the two countries manage the Great Lakes.
It also suggested that consumers should
start paying more for water as a conservation measure. |
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| who is maude barlow, what is her view on the accord? |
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chairman of the council of canadians and director with the International Forum on Globalization. “…instead of taking great care with the limited water we have, humans are diverting, polluting, and depleting it at an astonishing rate, as if there were no reckoning ahead.”
She thinks that the government was trying to protect water recources by not binding any provinces |
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| at what point can water be exported under NAFTA????? |
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| when we are willing to sell it? |
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| causes of water shortages????? |
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| applied to regions of the earth that are characterized by less than 254 mm of annual rainfall, an evaporation rate that exceeds precipitation, and, in most cases, a high average temperature. Because of a lack of moisture in the soil and low humidity in the atmosphere, most of the sunlight penetrates to the ground. Daytime temperatures can reach 55°C in the shade. At night the desert floor radiates heat back to the atmosphere, and the temperature can drop to near freezing. Wind carries off fertile topsoil and leaves wastelands of sand. People are unable to stop the spread of sand. |
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| causes of sahara desertification? |
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| causes and effects of canada's southern prairies becoming more desert like |
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