This Monday´s WSIC event provided a refreshing look at an issue that isn´t drying up: global water rights. (Those will be my first and last puns, I promise.) Like a lot of WSIC events, this one featured two guest speakers: Tara Seucharan and Michael Brothers, both members of the Council of Canadians.

Tara opened the discussion with a review of what the Council of Canadians has stood for since its founding in the mid-1980s. She emphasized the Council´s ferocity in protecting Canadian …

Commercialization of water is big business.

Though Canada controls much of the world’s accessible fresh water, and is blessed with one of the lowest municipal prices for water among industrialized countries, we still buy it from far away places like Fiji for as much as $6/litre.

Why? Because we often waste–or pollute–the water we’ve got here at home. Meanwhile, around the world, people struggle to gain access to the fresh water we take for granted. These two problems may be more closely connected than we’d like to admit.

Canada has …