Canada has more water than it knows what to do with.

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While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.

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'The Icefield is said to feed up to 80 per cent of Canada's drinking water, ' he says, 'but most of this glacier's volume has been lost since the 1920s.

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Meanwhile, back in North America, new techniques were being developed to extract oil and natural gas from shale formations deep underground, from tar sands in Canada, and from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Nearly three-fourths of all the fresh water in the world is in Canada.

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In theory, the world should still have more than enough water to feed everyone under most circumstances, thanks to sodden places like Canada and Russia.

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The real goal of these groups was not to protect water along the pipeline route, but to make it impossible to develop new sources of oil in Canada.

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