Apparently it is "uncivil" to disagree with an opinion piece:

The well that's running dry.

Baloney.

I can easily imagine citizens of other nations laughing themselves silly as this still ridiculously sparsely populated nation wrings its hands about whether we have 20% of the world's freshwater or "only" 7%.

Canada's water "crisis" is a crisis of will. Or perhaps courage. 

It is not a crisis of quantity.

How, oh how,, could we ever get water from where it is plentiful in this country, to where it is not? Hmmm, let's see now. 

How, oh how, could we ever design and build some sort of standard scale-able model "water treatment" facilities that could supply clean water to even remote communities.

Gee, that's a tough one. Tough that is, if you're the type of person who, when your car needs repairs, rolls it up on blocks on the front lawn and waits for it to spontaneously repair itself.

Use the bounty. Use it well and wisely. But use it.