Trump’s musings on ‘very large faucet’ in Canada part of looming water crisis, say researchers

Water sharing between Canada and the United States has long been a contentious issue.

In 2005, former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed warned against sharing Canada’s water supply with the United States, suggesting Alberta’s most important resource was water, not oil and gas.

“We should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it,” Lougheed said.