Quebec running short of water
Quebec, well provided with lakes and rivers, is running short of water. It’s being blamed here on climate change and urban sprawl, but I wonder how the golf courses are doing, and whether water bottling companies are sucking the aquifers dry.
Ephraim 09:52 on 2022-05-30 Permalink
Well, water bottling companies have to pay for water… though we clearly don’t charge enough. That money goes into the generations fund, if I remember correctly.
Blork 10:13 on 2022-05-30 Permalink
Not so much “Quebec” as “southern Quebec” (as indicated in the headline). Specifically, Monterégie and parts of the Eastern Townships.
Water is a weird thing. There are these reports of shortages, and yet something like 36 billion litres of water flow past the city every hour and out into the ocean.
(Math = measurements at Sorel range between 7500 and 13,000 square metres per second, so lets say an average of 10,000, which is 10,000,000 litres per second or 36,000,000,000 litres per hour.)
That doesn’t mean the problem isn’t real. It’s just hard to grasp.
seb 10:26 on 2022-05-30 Permalink
Water bottling plants? Can someone look into the clusterfuck that is Lachute with its terrible brown water and many bottling plants? Residents say it used to be so clean not so long ago. Moved here last year and every month we have brown water runningout of our taps while you can go to the local canadian tire or iga and buy water bottled right here in Lachute.