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Robert Studer (Editor Survival Central)

By: Robert Studer (Editor)

This week’s tip applies to last week’s tip on starting a pantry. After you have started your pantry and have it for a while remember to rotate your stock by placing newly bought cans to the back and older ones to the front. Read more »

A StatsCan study suggests Canada's freshwater supply is increasingly draining away. Photograph by: Geri Lyons, Global Edmonton Ground Force

Postmedia News September 13, 2010 4:02 PM

OTTAWA — While Canadians usually think of their country as water-rich, renewable water resources have been dropping in southern Canada at the annual rate of 1.4 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

Entitled “Freshwater supply and demand in Canada,” the report says that from 1971 to 2004, the water yield in the part of the country home to 98 per cent of the population fell by an average of 3.5 cubic kilometres a year, representing an overall loss of 8.5 per cent of southern Canada’s water yield over that period. The agency says the annual loss is the equivalent of “almost as much water as was supplied to Canada’s entire residential population in 2005.” Read more »