CBC: It could be a devastatingly dry summer in Alberta. So what can be done about it?

Posted by on April 08, 2024

CBC: It could be a devastatingly dry summer in Alberta. So what can be done about it?

Among those chief areas of interest for Alberta's 10th premier was the future of the country's water supply. In 2005, Lougheed warned Canadian politicians against sharing the country's water supply with the United States. In a speech around that time, he suggested that Alberta's most important resource was water, not oil and gas.

"We should not export our fresh water. We need it and we should conserve it," Lougheed said in a speech to the Calgary branch of the Canadian Club in 2005. "We should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it."

Fast forward to 2024 and the future of Alberta's water supply looks likely to enter public consciousness in a way it hasn't before.