World Water Day

Humans can only live for five to seven days without it.

More than 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface is covered in it, yet most of it is salty.

Canada contains one-fifth of the world’s freshwater supply.

World Water Day on March 22 is a chance to take stock of Canada’s water supplies, and to protect them.

Our water is threatened by the triple scourges of bulk water exports, climate change and trade agreements that include water.

Events are being held on World Water Day in Parksville, Powell River and Victoria.

Want to think outside the bottle? Check out a website devoted to weaning people off bottled water.

Plastic bottles require huge amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport.

Millions of bottles end up in landfills, which spew the greenhouse gas methane—72 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Canada has no National Water Policy. We haven’t even mapped our water supply.

Gulp.