WATER WARS
It’s a water world across Canada in the springtime, and everyone is talking about it. The snow is melting and the maple sap is running in late March; then April showers bring May flowers; and by early June in the Rocky Mountains, ice packs have released trickles that become rivulets that gain momentum over cascading waterfalls that reach the river valley as muddy torrents. Seasonal flood waters spread for kilometres across the Prairies, and basement sump pumps hum day and night.
By mid-August, water (the lack of it) is all the talk again, when corn crops droop and grassy lawns go yellow due to weeks without rainfall. Where I live, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, the
