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Good afternoon, and welcome to Globe Climate, a newsletter about climate change, environment and resources in Canada.

Ottawa is asking for help to shape the country’s first water security strategy, which hopes to improve freshwater management, protect ecosystems and secure water supplies.

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The federal government is asking Canadians to help shape the country’s first water security strategy as competing demands, climate change and tensions with the U.S. raise the stakes for the country’s freshwater resources.
 

The Canada Water Agency this week launched public engagement for the strategy, which aims to improve freshwater management, protect ecosystems and secure water supplies.

 

Wade Grant, parliamentary secretary to Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin, who is responsible for the Canada Water Agency, announced the launch of public engagement at a news conference in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday. Similar announcements also took place in Winnipeg and Toronto.
 

Mr. Grant called water security “one of the defining challenges of our time.”

 

“With increasingly frequent severe droughts, forest fires or floods impacting every corner of this country, we can see that water availability and water quality are changing,” said Mr. Grant, who is the MP for Vancouver Quadra. “This is the direct result of climate change. We know more must be done.”