Canadian groundwater under serious threat

The 15-member panel laments that reliable estimates of groundwater in Canada do not yet exist -- and key information won't be available for 20 years at the rate a national groundwater mapping program is moving.


But there is a big, immediate,and serious threat..

hmm, global warming over already ?

There should be a seperate sub forum for these stories,it can be called enviromental fearmongering because if you read the story its all assumptions and what if's.

Whats next,the suncycle storms that have been happening for millenium?

Oh wait,that was the other day.

Could drink the water from the well at my parents farm growing up.

A few local gas wells changed that about five years ago. Now they have to haul bottled water from town.

Thats strange,we put down 5000 and no change.You sure its their fault because of it is the govt. will do something if you can prove they were responsible.
Better have solid proof though as lots of Alberta farmers thought this would be a cash cow for them and it wasnt.

I can still drink right from the streams here and with the thousands of miles of abandoned coal shafts and unreclaimed strip mines around you would think it would be contaminated,especially being on the headwaters and continental divide.
Yet our drinking water in the next community downstream has won awards for the best in Canada.

At any rate if any groundwater gets contaminated in Alberta you can bet money on it that a farmer was to blame,they can get away with murder,the energy companies on the other hand have a very strict set of guidelines to follow and theres inspectors every step of the way watching.

The only reason I don't drink from a lot of the streams in K country is because of cattle grazing upstream ., on the land they pay next to nothing to use.

The only reason I don't drink from a lot of the streams in K country is because of cattle grazing upstream ., on the land they pay next to nothing to use.

Ya,they graze them here also,shitting all over and the ranchers are mostly pricks,had one try and kick me off our own land once,his cockiness faded when he realized he wasnt on crown land anymore.They treat the land as their own private land also,putting up shacks and camping all summer,no permits required,if it was oil or gas there would be tonnes of permit paperwork just to drive on the road.

Most days I end up with more cow crap than mud on my bike tires.

Thats strange,we put down 5000 and no change.You sure its their fault because of it is the govt. will do something if you can prove they were responsible.
Better have solid proof though as lots of Alberta farmers thought this would be a cash cow for them and it wasnt.I'm not a geologist but it was quite the drastic change in the contents of the well water at the same time a gas well went in. The gass well is probably 600 yards from the water well, give or take. From decades of clear, good tasting stuff to milky white salty crap over night? Quite the coincidence.

Brutal here,were one of the only landowners on the ranchland side that wont let the co op graze on our land,so they had to fence the whole 1/4 section.
Thats mostly because they let them run all over the place.

But,the land we have is agriculturual and the MD of Ranchlands has jurisdiction over it so the tax's are a third and getting a power line was very cheap as long as your farming something,we picked trees. The land cant be sub divided into anything smaller then 1/4 sections and only one house accomodation per 1/4 but the benefits of getting farmer status was great!

Rise and fall of the water table have something to do with it perhaps?

Thats strange,we put down 5000 and no change.You sure its their fault because of it is the govt. will do something if you can prove they were responsible.
Better have solid proof though as lots of Alberta farmers thought this would be a cash cow for them and it wasnt.I'm not a geologist but it was quite the drastic change in the contents of the well water at the same time a gas well went in. The gass well is probably 600 yards from the water well, give or take. From decades of clear, good tasting stuff to milky white salty crap over night? Quite the coincidence.

Rise and fall of the water table have something to do with it perhaps?

Brutal here,were one of the only landowners on the ranchland side that wont let the co op graze on our land,so they had to fence the whole 1/4 section.
Thats mostly because they let them run all over the place.

But,the land we have is agriculturual and the MD of Ranchlands has jurisdiction over it so the tax's are a third and getting a power line was very cheap as long as your farming something,we picked trees. The land cant be sub divided into anything smaller then 1/4 sections and only one house accomodation per 1/4 but the benefits of getting farmer status was great!


Lots of fences and lots of gates, usually at the bottom of narrow canyons. I wonder how they effect wildlife migration?

Brutal here,were one of the only landowners on the ranchland side that wont let the co op graze on our land,so they had to fence the whole 1/4 section.
Thats mostly because they let them run all over the place.

But,the land we have is agriculturual and the MD of Ranchlands has jurisdiction over it so the tax's are a third and getting a power line was very cheap as long as your farming something,we picked trees. The land cant be sub divided into anything smaller then 1/4 sections and only one house accomodation per 1/4 but the benefits of getting farmer status was great!


Lots of fences and lots of gates, usually at the bottom of narrow canyons. I wonder how they effect wildlife migration?

Not much,they just jump the fence or step over it.
Most deer and elk dont migrate much unless the food runs low,the 8 deer in my yard everyday will be here all year now,untill the cats move in.

They let them graze cattle right in the ghost town of Lille which is a historic site,makes a real mess of things with all the crap all over.

Sounds like a drop if he's getting white milky stuff,must be hitting the caliche which would be about the lowest the water table would be.
I would have to see the area and Geological formations before I set blame on any one person.
A farmer downstream could be bogarting the water and making the table drop.