American Reacts to Canada: The World's Water Superpower
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As an American I has no idea that water played such an important role in Canada's geography and economy. Today I am very interested in learning about what makes Canada the water superpower of the world. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Most Canadians know about our water dominance but would prefer to keep it our own little secret. We want to keep our part of the environment as clean as possible.
With the last 20 years of Prime Minister - wild in any direction - it's the environmental stuff that keeps me here
Related to him saying, around 5:45, we have a few lakes comparable with "the great lakes" in other places
Eventually America will be the worlds water superpower, once they annex us.....
Dam straight.
yea better to keep it to ourselves since we have no way to protect it if someone wants it. :(
Canada has Oceans on THREE sides, not TWO.
From coast to coast to coast. Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic…the only country that boarders Canada is the U.S.A.😮😊
@@maryannkeenayou forgot about the north part of Canada
@@maryannkeena Other than Greenland as well as the island owned by France, St.Pierre and Miquelon.
@@KatScratch1 And Russia on the North
There are ten countries border in canada, use the goog
Attention rest of the world. Our water is not for sale, so don’t ask.
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Nestle has been stealing and selling our freshwater for years and years to other countries
If the USA is running dry and they are on the verge of collapse you better believe this attitude will make Canada a conquered country.
Thats right we need to ensure the ability to make Timmy's coffee so hands off our water
Correct, not for sale. We actually give it away instead it seems.
I am a retired teacher. One of my favourite (yes, that’s spelled right) parts of our grade 2 science curriculum is the water cycle. Grade 2! That’s 7-year-olds!
I was thinking "he be mighty slow off the mark.
slow, are they? 😏
I'm not too confidant that he even understands that you can't drink ocean water
@@jameswilson4854 like Hudson Bay
Yes that what they need to lern ... not actual life lesson schools a joke
This is why 'hydro' and 'electric' are synonymous in Canada. Most of our power comes from dams.
Well. Growing up in SW Ontario that is true. I live in Alberta now though, and when I accidentally say hydro bill instead of power bill it really confuses ppl. So true, but location sensitive...
"Most" is an understatement. I have read something like 97% hydroelectricity.
We have water you have fighter jets can we trade some 😂😂
@@philippegauvin-vallee9371 Maybe in some areas like directly around Niagra, overall Canada electricity is about 60% hydroelectric and another 16% Nuclear.
lol only in central and Western Canada is this true. The Maritimes this is not used. I grew up calling it Electric company / Electric bill and no one here says anything other than electric bill lol. I had to ask my mom if other parts of Canada call it Hydro after hearing it for the first time in my life at age 16-18 on American TV lmao … we also call them Telephone or electric polls and not hydro polls lol. This makes sense where the majority of Atlantic canadas energy comes from non renewable sources lol, still majority oil and coal for the almost 5M people across the four provinces. NFLD maybe up to 50/50 now with muskrat falls. NS avoided opening 1-2 new coal mines / plants a decade to two back by creating efficiency NS to fund / facilitate improvements and subsidies to existing residential & commercial infrastructure to stabilize existing customers usage.
I'm 51. My whole life I was told the Americans will come one day for our water. Always slightly joking but not really.
Yeah. I don’t know anyone in Canada who isn’t aware of our water resources. It’s drilled into us how important it is to preserve it.
trump was referring to canadian water when he made that crack about how, once he's president again, all the water california needs will be coming "from the north", during a stump speech there about a year, year and half ago. we know they'll come for it, sooner or later.
Check out the Ogdensburg Agreement signed post-WWII in which we agreed the US would not invade Canada, period.
If Orange Mushroomhead gets in then all bets are off....
@@karenneill9109 that guy suggesting we sell it was gross. And I work in mining. I think it's drilled into us that we can never sell it or allow it to be pipelined away. It would be a political nightmare for whichever party were to suggest it.
@@mitchd4929 ask the liberals in BC, shit hit the fan when we found out that they’d signed a contract with Nestle to sell water for nothing.
it’s important to keep water as a resource, not a commodity. Just like air.
Saw a video a few years back. I think it was Frontline or BBC docs, can't remember. There was a talk about making water into commodity that can be bought and sold in the stock market just like any other shares. Scary...
I agree completely.
"...water as a resource, not a commodity."
>This is why Canada doesn't export water (with very few exceptions). Hopefully it continues that way.
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Yeah dw thats never happening. Simply because it is impossible lol. Even if someone does manage to commoditize water and sell it, once its sold, there is no way to get it back. It will just be part of the water cycle. You can't track a drop of water. Never could, never will.
My geography teacher told us that one day there will be wars over fresh water..
already has been ~
100%
"Canada what are you doing with all this water" giving it away to Nestle 😂
Sad, but true
What about the rich???
Sarcastic!!!!
Giving, is right lol, it's criminal how little they pay.
Pretty much
And coca cols aka, Warren Buffet.
Fun fact - Canada has over 2 million lakes... the most in the world!! We also have the largest coastline as well! ❤ from 🇨🇦
Hudson Bay is saltwater; we're talking here about fresh water supplies.
True, but Hudson Bay is a key geographical feature in Canada's freshwater systems. Both it and the Great Lakes form the basins where huge amounts of fresh water can collect in a diverse array of river systems.
It provides half of the country with river water
Water flows into Hudson Bay…. The northern water shed. Settlers used north flowing rivers to try to control natives- saying the rivers would flow south if they would believe in Christianity.
@@realscience948 does it? it's connected to the ocean. any river flowing away from hudson bay would quickly be flooded by the ocean.. so i'm pretty sure any connected rivers are flowing into the bay, not the other way around
now that i'm thinking about it, i wonder if it'd be possible to dam up hudson bay with a check valve, so that the fresh river water slowly pushes out all the saltwater over 100 years or so
Living in Africa for 2 years made me realize the importance of water and access to it is.
I really missed all the lakes and rivers I grew up with in Canada.
Here from Canada, in school, Canadians are taught about the water table. The greenhouse effect, the water cycle and the three states of water. Ie. Solid, liquid, vapour. Start there! It's easy to understand. I think we learn it in grade 5!!!!
Fresh water doesn't only exist for humans to drink. All land creatures depend upon fresh water for drinking, you can't irrigate crops with salt water and all fresh water aquatic life, plants and animals, require fresh water. Canada is number 3 with the largest volume of fresh water, but is number 1 in the volume of fresh water that can be consumed without filtering and processing. Many countries throughout the world have water, but their water is no longer suitable for consumption by humans due to pollution and contaminants. Due to Canada's harsh northern climate, a relatively small portion of the land area is suitable for growing crops that need vast amounts of water. In contrast, the U.S.A. has a much larger agricultural area that requires the consumption of water for crops. In recent years, the southwestern states of the U.S. have suffered severe fresh water shortages, with many reservoirs drastically dropping in water levels and water usage restrictions were implemented. The mighty Colorado River, that used to flow south to empty into the Gulf of Mexico, no longer flows into the gulf. So much water is drawn from the Colorado River by cities and agriculture along its' path, that the river dries up to a trickle of water that now stop several miles before reaching the waters of the gulf. There are treaties and agreements between the U.S. and Canada to protect the Great Lakes, that prevent the waters of the Great Lakes from being piped to supply areas such as the American southwest states.
when they get a rainstorm; it is a flood. Your house is at the bottom of a lake
The Nestle company is well aware of our water supply. You may want to look into that story.
Tyler: "Oh, yeah, I remember. In Canada, you call electricity and power "hydro".
Also Tyler: "Wow! I wonder if Canadians realize how much water they have."
LOL Never change, dude.
Oh I'm sure there are some dimwits that have no idea but most educated beyond grade 3 know we have a fuck of alot of water.
I live in Calgary, Alberta. A huge watermain ruptured in our city on June 5th. It took a while for workers to find the source of the break, and they have been working on it since then. Our entire city is under water restrictions, meaning no outdoor watering of lawns, gardens, flowers, trees & shrubs. No outdoor pools or hot tubs, no washing outdoor surfaces, such as windows, exterior building services, sidewalks, driveways or walkways, no decorative water features, no washing your card in the driveway or street & no water for construction purposes, such as grading, compaction or dust control. We also need to turn off outdoor automatic sprinkler systems, using dishwashers & washing machines only when required & with full loads, limiting showers to 3 minutes or less, keeping baths shallow, turning off humidifiers & ice machines, scraping plates clean rather than rinsing, not running the tap for longer than necessary, and turning off the tap when brushing teeth or shaving. The other day, they found 5 additional "hot spots" which also need to be repaired, which will take 3-5 weeks to fix, taking us into the middle of July with the water restrictions. Also, there is a very real chance that one day when we turn on the tap, no water will come out, if people don't reduce their water consumption. Also, there is a fire ban in place, because a fire could jeopardize our water supply as well to put it out. Hoping the little amount of rain we get will get us through. I've never appreciated the significance of our precious water before this happened.
I love watching Tyler discover Canadian facts. This one really shows the education system differences between the US and CDN. Not knowing geography and enviromental science. It would be a great video to compare the curriculum of both countries Highschools. The US has some of the most prestigious Universities but the general population isn't getting access to STEM subjects.
It appears that the basic science education in the US is very poor. Only the few of the 320 million end up in prestigious university science programmes.
Americans only care about americans
He 'discovers' the same facts over and over yet never seems to retain any of it.
In parts of the South, science isn't even taught because it conflicts with their beliefs. It's nuts.
Canadians, for the most part, know about our amazing water supply. It gets replenished by not only rainfall, but snowfall, particularly the heavy snowfalls in the mountains. In spring, when the big melt comes, the spring runoff comes roiling down the mountains into the lakes and rivers and for a period of time, the water levels rise and we steer clear to avoid getting swept away in the spring currents.
Not enough snow pack the last two years and the glaciers have receded an astonishing amount
I remember an American politician decades ago suggesting that the US could dig a big trench from Hudson’s Bay down through Canada to the US so that Americans could access the water. After all, it was only Canadians living in Canada, and we are totally unimportant, especially compared to Americans. Clearly this never happened, and the project was impossible.
Hudson’s Bay is salt water so also impossible for his purpose. Lol
We could dam the Canadian lake feeding the Mississippi River though
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@@catherinetodd5163 You can get fresh water from salt water, but it's currently very expensive.
@@celticlass8573 Of course. There is also access to salt water from oceans on both coasts of each country, so, why are we having this conversation? 😉
@@catherinetodd5163 Because it means that Hudson's Bay isn't impossible for his purpose, per your original comment.
We know the value of our drinking water resource and that's why we try to protect it as much as possible. Some companies tried to exploit the resource and export it without regard for the consequences, but we were quickly able to control the exploitation of our blue gold in order to avoid compromising the sustainability of our resource. The regeneration of water sources is a complex process that is subject to climate change. We must remain cautious.
In Canada, we also call water "Blue Gold", because it will become more and more valuable across the world, just like Oil is being called "Black Gold"
Maude Barlow co-wrote Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of World's Water, and appeared in the documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo
Big corporations are actually taking Canadian water almost for free at the moment.
That's got to stop.
That's why every country should practice Water Management there's plenty of water for everybody as long as it's taken care of and used responsibly.
The United States currently levies an illegal tariff on Canadian softwood, which costs Americans $10,000 and more per every single house in the entire continental United States. The reason is because a lot of these logs come from crown land. Almost all of Canada's fresh water is crown owned. I wonder at how the United States would deal with Canadian water. By the way, the softwood tariff is offset by US tax payers who have to pay Canada. All to protect an inefficient but powerful lobby in Washington.
The reality is, if water becomes a major commodity the US would not ask, they would take no matter what we Canadians say
The US can't do that and maintain its' position as World Cop/reserve currency and still get co-operation from others.
Not if! WHEN😢
@@caytjones2726 They're rather late for that. We've thoroughly infilrated the US already.
thats why americans need to use condoms more in order to have enough water for everyone
Two things weren't highlighted: 1) as glaciers shrink, it decreases the availability of freshwater, and 2) the amount of freshwater that exists in aquifers. The NY Times did a comprehensive article recently on shrinking aquifers in the US Mid-West
They will freeze again. Warming and freezing happens in a cyclic manner
@@personincognito3989 probably not before all of current human society is gone. Cycles like that happens in the span of 10,000 years or more.
We have excellent drinking water that tastes great (sometimes better than bottled). Just did some traveling down to California and as much as their water is safe for consumption, it just wasn't that good, we ended up buying a case of bottled water for the time we were there. As soon as I got back home, drank a couple giant glasses of tap water. But as many others have said, we don't want to export lots and have our rivers and lakes depleted.
How silly NOT TO NOTICE that that HUDSON BAY is a sea not fresh water... grown man can't read a map missed the artic ocean , must be embarrassing and thinking it's fresh water but not shocked that it's so so big . Just no critical thinking skills , we read maps in grade three in the land of ice and snow...
On the news now, 1.5 million Calgarians under 5 weeks water rationing.
And the Sunshine Coast of BC too
Calgary had a major water main pipe break. That’s why they have the restrictions while its being repaired. Fun fact, The City of San Diego is supplying sections of pipe for repairs.
The amount of water on Earth has and will remain stable. There's no new water being made. What we are doing is continuously recycling the same water the Dinosaurs peed in millions of years ago.
What is changing is the distribution of water as lands rise and fall. But mostly the distribution of fresh potable water is changing with industrial abuses and pollution. Water is not diminishing, but fresh water is.
So here's the plan...we use dinosaur DNA to regenerate about a thousand T-Rex and parachute them all into Moscow. More dinosaur pee and less idiots. Win/win
I thought something tasted funny 😅
actually some water escapes into space as Oxygen and Hydrogen ions, this way on average we lose approx. 334,324 cft of water per year.
we have a third coast up north, people don't remember .
I once heard an Australian say that Canada doesn't have any beaches...
Lol. Australia has alot of shoreline but I bet it's just a small fraction of what Canada has. In particular fresh water shoreline.
We are especially conscious of selling our water at a ridiculously low price. In addition to selling water, we have numerous dams for hydroelectricity production. Our surpluses are sold in the United States (New York City among others). This is why the 1998 ice storm was so dramatic. The majority of homes in Quebec are heated with electricity. The St. Lawrence River in Quebec is also one of the most important gateways for internal maritime traffic in North America.
In the US, the south western states are always rationing water - heavily due to agriculture but person residences as well. Likewise, South Africa (the country), is has had a few drastic drought years. And the list goes on.... Canada, where I live, could offer solutions and ship water, but I hope not so people can continue to waste it in dessert regions for lawns and open swimming pools. In that instance, maybe we could refuse to sell them water until they become more conscious about not wasting it.
2 millions lakes in Canada.
How many videos has Tyler been surprised to learn how many lakes are in Canada?!
I've been hearing this since grade 10 social studies in the 70's..
We started learning this an elementary school. The u s learns nothing about other countries. The thank goodness we have outliers like Tyler who want to learn about other countries. Good job Tyler.
I live in North Western Ontario on the shores of Lake Superior. An old trapper told me probably 40 years ago, that in my area, you could fish a lake every day for 80 years and only fish the ones you can drive to… and that’s just in our area…. Something to think about…🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'll never forget when TRump wanted to funnel water from BC to California 🤣🤣🤣
Remember, Dr. Evil is Canadian (Mike Myers) so people should be as nice to Canadians as Canadians are to them.
Also, When you look at that map, and consider the spin of the earth, all water from Canada feeds down to and through the US.
From what I understand the US sends up trucks to use natural water suplies in export to the US (Nestlie extracts 265 million litres per year). If we start charging the US a price then they have free acess to all the water at that price, no limits so we limit how much they can take at one time rather than charging them so they can't take as much as they want.
This is oversimplification but basically, water flows to the lowest point, oceans, then oceans evaporate and falls back in rain on the continents. Weather patterns and seasons determine where it flows.
He's making a big deal of the Great Lakes, but people forget about the thousands of small lakes and sloughs in Canada. They range from very small to the Great Bear Lake. When people do find out about those lakes, the first reaction is that they want that water! 'Why don't we sell it?' The answer is simple. While we might not use the water to drink, our wild life uses to live; water feeds our land. Water is not a just a commodity, it is our life blood.
BTW Tyler that huge body - Hudson Bay - is salt water.
In addition to the river systems, Canada is very spread out and have a lot more nature that has not yet been effected by urban infrastructure and what not. Even extraction processes like fracking are banned in some provinces. This keeps the nature more pristine and allows for the supply to not be depleted so fast. As far as supplying water to other parts of the world; we do that already, but not on the scale of pipelines (for reasons too numerous to list here). But have had US companies like Nestle try to buy the rights to our fresh water to supply their products. This is a detail most people overlook, as that water is a key component in food production & processing, as well as other industries like manufacturing and paper manufacturing. This contributes to the overall consumption numbers.
Most of what you said is on point. But, it’s important to note that Nestlé is a Swiss company, not American.
The price we charge Nestlé to extract water in Ontario is a crime. It’s as though the Province doesn’t believe the water has any real value. So we give it away to these foreign corporate giants who turn around and sell it back to us for much more than the price of gas, and all they had to do was put it in a package.
We’re sitting on this precious resource that will only become more strategically valuable in the near future, and we don’t even recognize it.
Congrats on having a fast growing channel. You do a good job
Go two days without water, and you will know how valuable water is.
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This is exactly what we do. We boat and swim and relax on the lakes. A nice American like you is always welcome to come hang out yunno. We just don't like the Americans who talk to us like we live in igloos. 😂
In Calgary, we get our water from the bow river, the melting snow pack from Banff. First stop for tourists in Banff is usually Bow Falls which feeds the Bow River right into downtown Calgary, great rainbow trout fishing in the Bow River too..
Bow Falls is really majestic, I've been to Banff in both the summer and winter (for skiing), it's really nice, though I am not a tourist, I would definitely recommend it to anyone visiting if they had a chance to see it. Glaciers like the icefields are probably worth mentioning too in terms of water sources.
It is widely agreed among global economic forecasters, that the key resource in the second third of this century will be water. As a result of climate change, oil, gas, and carbon minerals will become far less important. Meanwhile, the haves and have-nots among nations will be determined by which has sufficient water.
You should react to the water shortage going on right now in Calgary, Alberta. There was an issue with a pipe and now we're close really close to being out of water for over a week now.
A huge amount of Canada's fresh water is located in sparsely populated areas like the North and the Shield, making it difficult to build infrastructure to harvest those resources. That's why it remains undeveloped as of right now. Plus, there's the difficulty of harvesting water without damaging the local environment. Thise ecosystems are adapted to having access to that water, so removing a significant percentage of it could have negative consequences. So it's far from a simple solution to people's water/economic woes.
Far better to simply avoid having unsustainably large populations in areas with inadequate water to support them but unfortunately that requires far more analysis and forethought than people have. California and Nevada will need substantial water import in the future.
I strongly disagree with the Narrator ... Water should never be turned into a commercial resource... Knowing humans... Eventually it will become a corrupt industry at the expense of all Canadians. Water should never be sold in mass as a country's resource.
It already is a commercial resource. Nestle owns water rights to aquifers in Ontario and bottle and sell water from them.
The time will come sooner than you think, water will be hard to get and more expensive
Water replenishment happens primarily through precipitation either as rain or snow. At higher altitudes the winter snowfall accumulates then the spring thaw brings the water down the mountains through the river systems and much of it runs out to sea. The precipitation is supplied by evaporation of sea water. It is an elegant system where undrinkable ocean salt water is purified and changed to fresh water. As long as we keep pollutants out of the air we get fresh drinkable rain water.
Ocean water evaporates, travels inland and falls as precipitation. What doesn't get used and absorbed runs back out to sea through the rivers. Its an infinite cycle as long as man doesn't find a way to screw with it.
Water from lakes and rivers is fairly replenishable from rainfall; but that is less true of groundwater.
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You might be interested in looking into the export of Canada’s electricity to the USA.
There have been think tanks about what could start a world war. Water was top of the list for some
Not to mention Trump recently said he was unhappy with Canada because we wouldn't supply the US with water because we want to protect "some fish". Don't know how much of that is true but if Trump gets re-elected, a real possibility, he might just start a war with us over water.
You get the water back by the precipitations like rain and snow.
... and consuming diuretics like caffeine and alcohol
Correct. But precipitation is not evenly distributed. If we ship a billion litres of water elsewhere. we are not going to get a billion back. At least I don't think so, maybe someone in that field knows the distribution of rainfall per country.
@pierrelevasseur2701 I guess it will depend on the natural cycle of the weather. Canada will manage the surplus for exports vs. consumption. Quebec already sold a lot of hydro to NY.
We are seeing less rainfall and snowfall as the years go by in Canada, global warming affects us all. Water is precious. People don't realize it until they turn on the tap and nothing comes out.
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That's the other thing. If you start shipping water out of the country, weather patterns will shift...probably (not 'prolly') for the worse.
Canada has more than 2 million lakes and 8500 'named' rivers. Yup! we got water!
The prairies still have a ton of water. Especially Manitoba. Probably like 20% of the province is taken up by lakes😂.
That;s what I was thinking as well. And the number of times Manitoba has flooded in the spring has me wondering about the video's creator. I don't know where that comment of the prairies being dryer came from.
If you look at the map, most of the dry region he pointed out was in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan (where most people live), which if you know your history, have gone through multiple droughts since 1867, the most famous being the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s. The northern parts of all three Prairie provinces, where far fewer people live, have an abundance of freshwater.
Vancouver ISLAND, (pop .1M) has MORE lakes than all of California. Many major rivers and dams in the USA, are from the Canadian source of rivers and lakes. A lot of bottled product is made and exported from BC water regions.
Hello, from Hamilton Ontario, Canada. I enjoy watching your RUclips channel, Tyler. I have been a fan for a long time, I appreciate your honesty and sincerity. Most of all, I appreciate the interest, and the time you take to educate yourself, about your neighbors to the north. In doing so you educate so many of your fellow Americans. I too, have learned a few facts that I didn't know. There are still a few, that cross the border in mid summer with their skis and winter wear , looking for the slopes. Lol. You are a fantastic neighbor and I look forward to watching your shows keep them coming. You'll have to come by and see us sometime up here in the Great White North for a couple of "Brewskies EH"
Lol. ✌️🙏
So many previous videos talked about Canada having more fresh water than the rest of the world combined.
That's the number of lakes.
Tyler tends to be forgetful about a lot of things. Either that or he doesn't realize that he's got viewers who watch more than one video and know there are things he should remember.
How is it that you've missed all the talk of droughts all over the world? You've "never even thought about it"? It's happening with greater frequency in the U.S. and, yes, even in Canada. Come on, Tyler, don't be that American. 😮
@@Shan_Dalamani Or he is deliberately obtuse. After all, his lack of knowledge is his schtick.
@@political_zenit is getting a little old at this point.
In Canada we have a comedy band called Arrogant Worms that pokes fun at our country.
One of their song's lyrics are "We have rocks and trees, and trees and rocks. And rocks and trees. And trees and rocks. And rocks and trees. And trees and rocks. And rocks and trees. And trees and rocks... and water!"
USA: AH! we have the biggest military in the world, you must do as we say!!!
Canada: Cut the water supply at the faucet.
USA + rest of the world: Can you spare a sip, our tears no longer flows!
Canada: Waking up from a dream, thinking nah, we are way too nice for that and they'll thank us for it... right?
If no one else has mentioned this, here in B.C Canada we have water restrictions that starts in May till sometime in September.
Canada has had a long running debate about whether or not water should be turned into a commodity. The US has been agitating for literal decades for mass water exports from Canada into the US (Look at the NAWAPA proposal from the RAND corporation/US army corps of Engineers starting in the '50s for a primer on scale of what the US has been planning). Canada has traditionally taken the view that water, being such an essential component to life, maybe should not be allocated based on who's got the biggest ability to pay, but should be distributed in a more equitable manner.
Many years ago I remember a US senator say why don't we just go up there and take it.
@@abjectt5440 That's the Canadian security strategy for dealing with being on the border of the most powerful nation in history: Be a very reliable partner.
@@Bryan46162 Though we were a partner in The Manhattan Project, we declared nuclear weapon non-proliferation in late 1945. So we aren't a military threat to the US, Russia or China, and can relax about being armed to the teeth, like the US, UK & France are.
@@michaeldowson6988 Canada had nukes until 1984 and given increasing instability in the world and the invasion of Ukraine (which wouldn't have happened if they hadn't given up their own nukes) it is clear this was a mistake. International agreements from the UK, US and Russia did not protect Ukraine and Canada should not rely solely on good relations with the US for security. Canada and Australia both have the industrial capacity, resources and expertise to build nukes in a few months but obviously political implications are significant.
@@ccibinel We did declare non-nuke status in 1945. It wasn't 'til the USSR gained the tech that we were stocking them, but too many US Broken Arrow incidents made us give up on that.
So we aren't targets for the Russian or Chinese nukes, and our Arctic is worthless as a target for an invasion force.
Dude, have you noticed all the sinkholes popping up around the world? When you take too much water from an aquifer and it can’t replenish it as fast, the ground sinks. They Almost had to shut down the hydroelectric generators at the Hoover dam because the water level on the Colorado was so low. When each state was allocated a certain amount of water, a lot of things were not factored in. There are already water shortages (and fights) between different states. Some of it is for agricultural use, farms going dry. And some for residential use (showers, dishes, drinking water, etc.) but many industries use large amounts of water. The St. Lawrence River is so polluted from industrial waste, the their beluga whales have to be disposed of a TOXIC waste! It is also no longer recommended that people living near Lake Ontario eat anything that comes out of it due to toxicity levels. We have all of this beautiful, fresh, clean, water that we could be drinking and subsisting on, but industries are polluting it beyond repair. All hail the might dollar! Who cares if we become unable to clean it enough? We drink it anyway after taking out a solids. Areas near Lake Ontario in Canada comprise the LARGEST CANCER CLUSTER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! And no one talks about it.
I live in Saskatchewan. That green part in the northern half of the province on that map of rivers holds most of the 100,000 lakes we have.
There is some irrigation, only about 340,000 acres, compared to the approximately 60.3 million acres farmed.
Its a great place to live as well.
This is the exact plot of the Brian K Vaughan comic "We Stand on Guard". The USA and Canada go to war over fresh water when it starts to become scarce.
In Canada there is a law that bans the export of fresh water in mass. Bottled water is allowed to be exported.
There are a lot more thirsty people in the United States.
Rain and melting snow and ice replenishes most of the water supply in Canada.
Manitoba is full of large lakes and rivers. Winnipeg prepares for major flooding each spring as the winter snow melt drains into the Red River basin starting in the United States and flows up to Lake Winnipeg, through Winnipeg. In the 1950's Winnipeg built a massive floodway to redirect massive amounts of water around the city to save it from destructive flooding.
Well, Tyler, we DRINK a lot of it (right out of the tap), we make electricity with it, we fill our pools with it (fly over Quebec city or Montreal, or ANY Canadian city and its suburbs and be amazed at the amount of backyard swimming pools stuck in the land of the big freeze!), we fill our skating rinks with it to make ice, we fish and swim in it, and we sell some of it in little plastic or glass bottles.
We don't get an electricity bill, we get a Hydro bill, especially in Eastern Canada, where most power generation is hydraulically sourced. Where I live, the power company is called Hydro-Quebec... That sums it up...
I have NEVER paid a "water" bill from a meter, in my life, just the regular city tax to fund the treatment plants.
The only constraints that I've ever experienced were sometimes when we get really hot summers, and there is a need to slow the water usage, mostly because of the limits on treatment volume and overuse, OR, when I lived on Vancouver Island (3X already... ), which is surrounded by salt water and has a limited water table. THERE you get lots of advisories, usage bans for pools and lawns, etc.
PS: Tyler... The world is heating up, and water sources are disappearing (mountain tops not getting snow anymore, lakes drying up, rivers not flowing anymore, etc...).. SO YES! Deep freshwater lakes that are NOT polluted like in Russia and other places, are slowly becoming more valuable, and are on every country's top resource list.
In a few years only, there will be a lot of wars fought over WATER, instead of oil!!!
We're like Scrooge McDuck up here, literally swimming in the stuff! 🌊🌊🏊🌊🌊
I live in Saskatchewan where there are over 100k lakes but most are in the north and the area I live in is semi arid with prevalent cacti, desert flowers and desert plants. Watch where you step and definitely where you sit!
Canada is the second largest country in the world in total area. Howere if you subtract all the area covered by fresh water lakes, Canada is only the 4th largest country in land area.
If you subtract the number of spiders, the number of crows, the number of cacti....really? Many parameters can be used but it just gets silly.
Not silly at all. Nice to have land that's liveable.
@@madbab8942 - Much is far from liveable but that is true of many countries like Russia or even the US SW which is far from liveable due to lack of water.
I'm in Northeastern Ontario. Went to the local Arctic Watershed a few days ago (Trans-Canada Hwy, Sesekinika, Ontario) WE ALL KNOW how lucky we are with the water supply. Literally over 1000 lakes in all directions of where I live and so many smaller rivers its incredible.
this guy is an example of education in America
Most of our fresh water just flows to the ocean. At one of the lakes in British Columbia which is 26 miles long, it rose 8 feet in two weeks. All of the extra water just flowed out the river at the bottom of the lake and then to the sea.
WOW! I'M TOTALLY SHOCKED!
Tyler, how did you not know about the lowering state of water, especially in some countries?
Fresh water is is very precious and important and with the population is most countries is still rising, water and the concern if there's enough has become such a huge issue. How do you not know this?
As far as replenishment goes, Canada has an abundance of rain, untold amounts of snow and multitudes of ice. We also have the Canadian Shield which throughout history has created 1,000's of small freshwater lakes. Our seemingly unlimited supply of glacier ice is, as well, a huge contributor to our supply of water.
Not so, sir. One only has to look at the Columbia Ice Fields, the source of the Columbia River, to see what is happening to the glaciers in Canada. Just in my lifetime (72 years), that glacier has receded over a mile.
Water was a major stumbling block in the first Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the USA in 1988. Canada made sure that water was a protected resource, and not subject to free trade.
As a Canadian water is already a major trade industry along with oil & gas, lumber/paper and also some of the biggest gold and diamond deposits
Canada is currently exporting water and it really can't afford to. Right now, Canada's usage just about balances it's replenishment rate. Any more consumption will eat into the water reserves and they don't replenish nearly as quickly. The estimate is that the reserves take about a thousand years to replenish, but if you were to drain just 1% of the current reserves each year, the reserves would be gone in just a century, leaving us with no water, not even our current usage for the next 900 years.
You really should know more about water, Tyler.
Salt water is completely undrinkable unless it is desalinated (i.e., the salt is removed). Hudson's Bay (the second largest bay in the world) is saltwater and therefore doesn't count when figuring freshwater.
Freshwater as it currently exists has 2/3rds bound up in glaciers (with the two biggest being the Antarctic ice sheets and the Greenland ice sheet) and only 1/3 as groundwater (rivers and lakes). The glaciers are not only melting, the rate at which they are melting is accelerating each year. There may well be no glaciers left anywhere on the planet within the next 50 years. When smaller glaciers such as the Columbia Ice Fields melt, they run off as part of the local groundwater. Once it runs off to the ocean, only a part of it returns (the sea level rises, so there is a little more evaporation which will return as rain, but more of it is beneath the surface where it can't evaporate as easily), meaning that within the next t0 years, our freshwater will consist solely of what groundwater there is and lakes will be the only reserves of freshwater that we have.
In the U.S., the Colorado River basin has been in the news for the last several years. Newscasts have shown where the ground has sunk more than a man's height as the water table has dropped. Pictures of the river's surface water show it having shrunk by close to 50%. Most of that means that the river is just narrower and the banks closer together for most of its length, but there are places where the river no longer exists. The states of the basin have made a treaty between them regulating the use of the river, but consumption is still greater than can replenished, so the river continues to shrink. The worst of it is that as the water table lowers, the earth subsides, closing up the pocket where the water used to be. This means that even if you were to subject the area of subsidence to floods, the earth can't just soak the water up and raise the water table. That lost water is lost for good. You're never getting it back. And that is why Americans who live on the Great Lakes, in places like, oh say, Indiana are opposing suggestions from residents of the Colorado basin that a water pipeline be established to let them drain water from the Great Lakes into the Colorado. Not that a typical, average American is aware of the issue or likely to learn about it.
Seriously, Tyler, you need to do some videos about your own nation, so you can say, "I never knew this about the U.S! I'm shocked! Shocked and amazed! Who knew about this?"
Farmers in the SW US are drilling deeper and deeper wells for irrigation water but the aquifers are so low they can't get to it.
Just a point of interest, if you look at a map of North America you can trace a line from Great Slave, Great Bear, Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, Lake Winnipegosis, and the hundreds of lakes and rivers between them into the Great Lakes, Niagara River, Detroit River and the St Lawrence, this system was actually once a great inland sea that divided North America into to separate continents.
Large scale desalination is becoming increasingly practical with cheap but intermittent renewables. Correctly designed facilities can solve these problems without 2000km long pipelines.
@@ccibinel - The potential for desalination as with any process is how it will effect the natural order. Every time humans think they have a solution they screw up the natural balance of things. I much prefer population control. I never had kids but some people still have a dozen, usually the ones too stupid to realise their genetic code is not all that essential to the planet.
@@ccibinel Even if it needs 2000km pipelines. Just fing build them. We build them for oil, and water is much more important. It's time for desalination en mass to become widely adopted before people actually do start fighting over it.
@@Dejavuproned8 Canada doesn't really want to bulk export water cheaply and destabilize our water cycle. Over time we would not regenerate what we send. We are talking about a problem over 100+ years.
I live in Alberta, right now, we have had serious weather systems go through, which has helped Calgary replenish their water reservoirs. Saying that, they are still under water restrictions, along with most of southern Alberta. Here in Edmonton, we are being asked to conserve usage to divert water north, and south of us, as a respectful request. For the most part, people are complying. It may sound like a lot of water, but with global warming, we are already seeing serious shifts in the various environments up here, and we are MUCH cooler temperature wise to the states. This is extremely fragile situation. Alberta has also has a MASSIVE population surge in the last 2.5 years, Canada has jumped 1.5 million people in the last 1 to 2 years, our infrastructure is groaning!!
Week 2 of critical water crisis here in calgary...heres hoping for a deluge this weekend...
Fun fact, Manitoulin Island is an island in Lake Huron but also has 108 lakes within the island and two of those lakes also contain islands. Things are very different from when I was a kid as huge efforts have gone into cleaning up the lakes and rivers to get rid of the pollution which unfortunately our US neighbours haven't been so good about. The Canadian side of the Great Lakes is bordered by Ontario and the Ontario taxpayers (which I was one for many years) have paid billions to clean up and maintain the lakes they border while some US cities continue to expel pollutants into them. I have seen the physical evidence of this around Cleveland in the past 10 years. There were years in the 80's and 90's where you couldn't swim in Lake Ontario and areas of Lake Erie due to the pollution level. We don't have water to spare, we have water available but it's not a spare inventory item. Also, Hudson's Bay comes off the Labrador Sea and is not a freshwater resource.
Manitoba's license plates were "home of 100,000 lakes" We missed the memo on keeping it quiet
Here in Calgary we have a water main break that’s put us and surrounding smaller cities with close to running out of water
I live in Calgary Alberta and last week we had a major water pipe burst. It supplies most of our city with fresh potable water. We have to reduce our water consumption by 25% until it can be repaired. Believe me, 25% less water has been a real struggle. Do not take water for granted!!!
Truth... going in to week 2 and they are saying we have not cut back enough...
All you have to do is look at a map of Canada to see it's covered in water.
You'd think! Sad.
Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water. Canadian government issued licenses to Canadian companies in British Columbia authorizing the export of nearly 55.5 million cubic meters of water annually by ocean tanker. The Canadian companies with these licenses would then award contracts to foreign companies to export water from Canada. A Canadian company called Snowcap received one such permit, and awarded a contract to a U.S. company, called Sun Belt, to export water from British Columbia to California. However, due to public opposition to these bulk water exports based on environmental concerns, the government of British Columbia issued a ban on exports and rescinded the licenses.
P.S. Research hydrological cycle (water cycle) diagrams online, it will explain the cycle of water on our planet.
Yes, because they they were consuming far too much and it caused a significant depletion.
Please note that Hudson bay is not fresh water but salt water.
I’m in Montreal (an island), I can walk to the shore of the St-Lawrence river in about 50 minutes from home and I can walk to the Lachine canal in a minute.
We have to thank Beavers for most of our fresh water in Canada. They build their dams to hold the water making thousands of small lakes. The way the water is constantly replenished is due to our winters. The winter snow melt every spring releases hundreds of thousands of gallons onto the ground which flows to our rivers filling up the lakes. It’s a yearly process which will probably never stop.
There's been talk in the past about nationalising the water supply. With very little traction, to be clear, so it never was something serious, but due to water not being a commodity with an actual price like everything else you can take out of the ground, it has been pumped by foreign corporations and sold back to us. So basically there were no tariffs on the water itself, the bottling often done somewhere else, and then reimported.
In the past decade or so however, canadian corporations were instead subsidized to be able to compete.
I remember learning about this in school where we they taught us to use this hidden superpower for nefarious schemes.
Mother Nature already set up a "free trade" agreement between Canada and the USA. The Continental Divides decide which direction rivers will flow and at some places, this results in water going in three directions (i.e. in the Canadian Rockies, there is a place where the rivers will travel west to the Pacific, east to Hudson Bay, and north to the Arctic Ocean). Some of our river systems feed into larger systems in the USA, such as the Kicking Horse and Kooteney Rivers going into the Columbia. Conversely, the Red River has its headwaters in the USA (near the border of North and South Dakota) and flows north through Winnipeg up to Lake Winnipeg. There is also the Milk River (south Alberta, Saskatchewan) that goes into the Missouri River. Of course, there has also been a LOT of engineering along these river systems for flood control, hydro production, and reservoirs.
I saw on YT an interesting docu about water smuggling across the boarder 😂 definitely opened my eyes to our resources it includes selling bottled AIR to Asian countries for people to heal lung diseases etc.
In school they would drill this fact into our brains and tell us that we are lucky that we live here. Also on a side note, most of the world’s fresh water supplies are just hovering around few meters above the oceans and need dehumidification to extract it. What the video is actually showing is the percentage of the easiest cheapest water supply to extract. Freshwater supplies can also be collected from the air itself without any consequence for millennia. There’s not enough humans that could be detrimental to this particular source of freshwater.
What's very striking, is look at the lake / Hudson bay and then try and find the great lakes. Can't even see then in comparison of size of body of water
The rivers they're why we used the Canoe instead of a Covered Wagon. The Rockies were interesting to say the least.
Water is regenerated by precipitation in the form of rain and snowmelt. And in Canada we have more snow to melt therefore we replace much of the water we use naturally.
Hudson Bay is salt water.....and Canada is bordered on 3 sides by oceans, Pacific (West Coast), Atlantic (East Coast) and Arctic Oceans (North Coast). There is also a thing called Iceberg Farming on the East Coast where iceberg ice/water is gathered to sell as boutique water and used to make beer and liquors but the amounts are insignificant and localized