A tri-partite discussion on water transfers and diversions would be the highlight of the North American Future 2025 Project with Canada, US and Mexico trying to agree on an arrangement at the end of the discussion.
The North American Future 2025 Project will see a number of behind-the-door conferences on issues like environmental rules and security protocols but the debate on Canadian water on April 27 would remain under the scanner.
The closed-door conferences will also include discussion of ‘water transfers’ and diversions, as par the project’s outline.
The project also helps guide the ongoing Security and Prosperity Partnership, a wide-ranging effort needed for furthering the integration of the countries’ practices on everything — be it environmental rules or security protocols and border controls.
Director of the project Armand Peschard-Sverdrup said,
It’s no secret that the U.S. is going to need water. ... It’s no secret that Canada is going to have an overabundance of water. At the end of the day, there may have to be arrangements. Canada will have to make its own decisions. We recognize that.
Interestingly, news of the discussion appeared the same day when a UN panel on climate change said in a report that US might lock horns with Canada after hit by droughts.
