A Primer on Fresh Water: Questions and Answers

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Water – Forever on the move
• Water – Underground
• Water – How we use it
• Water – How good is it?
• Water – An ecosystem perspective
• Water – In Canada
• Water – How we share it
• Water – How we manage it
• Water – The Great Lakes
• Water – DOs and DON'Ts
• Environment Canada's Communications Offices
• Selected Glossary

Note: A resource guide, entitled Let's Not Take Water For Granted, is available to help classroom teachers of grades 5-7 use the information from the Water Fact Sheets and A Primer on Fresh Water: Questions and Answers.

The print version of this publication contains the following
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

A primer on fresh water : questions and answers
5th ed.
Issued also in French under title: Notions élémentaires sur l'eau douce : questions et réponses

ISBN 0-662-28765-1
Cat. no. En37-90/2000E

1. Water – Canada.
2. Water quality – Canada.
3. Water conservation – Canada.
4. Water-supply – Canada.
I. Canada. Environment Canada.

GB707.P74 2000   553.7'0971   C00-980131-6

"Character" drawings: John Bianchi

Published by authority of
the Minister of the Environment

©Minister of Public Works and Government Services 2000