NRTEE Releases New Report On Sustainable Water Use

In Changing Currents: Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada's Natural Resources Sector, the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) concluded that Canada's structures for management and governance of water resources weren't equipped for what the report called an "uncertain water future".

In its new report released on November 17, 2011, Charting a Course: Sustainable Water Use by Canada's Natural Resource Sector, the NRTEE describes some of the steps that must be taken, including:

• better understand the future growth of the natural resource sectors and their water requirements;
• recognize the value of water, both in terms of how much it currently costs the sectors and where water pricing may be an incentive for further water efficiency and conservation;