Exporting water not so simple
The article by Mike Fegelman in your March 26 issue has so many errors of fact that it is questionable whether it is worth taking his proposal to export water seriously.
To mention just two errors: Most of the water we use renews fully every year, as anyone who goes outside in March or April can confirm; only a small proportion in certain aquifers is nonrenewable. And privatization in Bolivia was so far from successful that it led to deadly riots that forced the government to cancel the contract. Even if there were no other objections (and there are many) the notion that Canada could make money by exporting water fails on its own grounds.