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- As reported by Owen Wood, CBC News Online | May 2002
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- The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to clean
drinking water.
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- The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to sanitati=
on.
Most are in Africa and Asia.
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- The estimated number of people who depend on groundwater worldwide
(about one-third of the world's population). Countries around the wo=
rld
face rapidly depleting groundwater resources, including parts of Ind=
ia,
China, West Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the former Soviet Union and=
the
western United States.
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- The number of countries that had experienced serious water shortages=
by
the mid 1990s. This makes up about 40 per cent of the world's
population.
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- The proportion of the global population who live in countries with
moderate-to-high water stress. Water stress occurs when water
consumption exceeds 10 per cent of renewable freshwater resources.
West Asia faces the severest threat. More than 90 per cent of=
the
population in the region lives under severe water stress.
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- The proportion of the global population that is expected to be livin=
g in
water stressed conditions in less than 25 years.
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40%=
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- The increase in global water use expected by 2020.
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- The projected cost per year of bringing poor people universal access=
to
water by 2015.
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- The number of Canadians who receive municipal drinking water.
Source: Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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- The number of municipal water treatment plants in Canada that treat
drinking water taken from lakes, rivers and groundwater sources.
Source: Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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- The amount of municipally-treated water that is used for drinking.
Source: Environment Canada
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- The amount of water the average adult drinks daily, including water =
used
in drinks such as coffee, tea and juice.
Source: Health Canada
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- The amount of bottled water the average Canadian drank in 1997.
See chart
Source: Statistics Canada
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- The amount of water the average Canadian used daily inside the home =
in
1998. Most indoor water is used in the bathroom.
See charts
Source: Environment Canada
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50%<=
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- The percentage of all municipally-treated water used up during the
summer months by people watering their lawns and gardens.
Source: Environment Canada
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20%<=
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- The percentage of all municipal drinking water lost to leaks.
Source: Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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- The amount or water used in Canada per capita basis for all purposes=
. Of
the 29 member nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation =
and
Development (OECD), only the United States uses more water than Cana=
da
on a per capita basis. Canada?s per capita water consumption is 65 p=
er
cent above the OECD average.
Source: OECD
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30%<=
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- The percentage of Canadians who rely on groundwater for domestic
use.
Source: Statistics Canada
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- The number of water wells currently in use in Canada.
Source: Environment Canada
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- The number of Canadians who use municipal sewer systems.
Source: Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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- The number of municipal wastewater treatment plants in Canada that
remove contaminants and disinfect sewage before it is dumped back in=
to
Canadian waters.
Source: Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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6%=
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- The percentage of Canadians who lived in municipalities with sewers
containing wastewater that received no treatment before being discha=
rged
into the environment in 1996. This was down from 28 per cent in
1983.
Source: Statistics Canada
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41%<=
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- The percentage of Canadians whose water received tertiary treatment,=
the
highest level of wastewater treatment, in 1996. This was up from 28 =
per
cent in 1983.
Source: Statistics Canada
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- The amount of untreated sewage dumped into our waters every year (ab=
out
3.25 billion litres per day) by 21 cities across the country.
Source: Sierra Legal Defence Fund PDF HTML
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- The percentage of Canadians living in urban areas who have access to
clean water. This figure is 99 per cent for rural Canada. Compare th=
is
to Afghanistan where only 19 per cent of urban residents and 11 per =
cent
of rural residents have access to clean water.
Source: World Health Organization
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- The number of waterborne disease outbreaks that were reported in Can=
ada
between 1974 and 1996. It is estimated that only one-tenth of such
outbreaks are reported.
Source: Health Canada
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- The number of people who died in Walkerton, Ontario, in May 2000 whe=
n E.
coli and other bacteria contaminated the town’s water supply. =
In
total, over 2,000 people got sick.
Source: CBC News Online
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- The number of people who die each day worldwide due to diseases rela=
ted
to water, feces and dirt, such as cholera and infant diarrhea. In
developing countries, 80 per cent of illnesses are water related.
Source: Environment Canada
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- The percentage of the world’s fresh water that is in Canada.
Source: Environment Canada
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- The amount of space covered by Canada's freshwater lakes, ponds and
rivers. This accounts for about nine per cent of the Canada's total
area.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
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- The amount of water that flows over Niagara Falls every second in the
daytime. At night about half of this water is diverted for
hydroelectricity. Niagara Falls is the largest producer of electric
power in the world.
Source: Info Niagara
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- The size of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, the largest
lake entirely in Canada (the Great Lakes border the U.S.). Great Bear
Lake is more than five times the size of Prince Edward Island.
Source: Statistics Canada
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- The size of Wollaston Lake in Saskatchewan, the largest lake in the
world that drains naturally in two directions - north into the Macke=
nzie
River basin and east into Hudson Bay.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
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