Mapping Virtual Water Use in Canada’s Prairies: A Comparison between Prairie Virtual Water Demands and Renewable Supply

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dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Gregory "Manny" Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-27T23:58:08Z
dc.date.available2014-08-27T23:58:08Z
dc.date.issued2014-06
dc.description66 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Geography and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Science, Spring 2014.en_US
dc.description.abstractCanada is often perceived as a water-rich nation. However, in the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, water is in lower supply. These provinces are also home to about 85 percent of the country's agriculture, which consumes the largest amount of water of any industry in the country. In this thesis, I first analyze the water demands from potential evapotranspiration and virtual water demands from nine of Canada's primary agricultural products (beef, pork, chicken, wheat, canota, soy, oats, barley, and com). I subsequently compare these demands with the renewable supplies of water from precipitation and streamflow to show that the prairies are approaching on the maximum hydrologic capacity of their environment.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18158
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Geography, Honors College, B.S., 2014;
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectInternational water policyen_US
dc.subjectVirtual wateren_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectWater policyen_US
dc.subjectTradeen_US
dc.subjectWater accountingen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.titleMapping Virtual Water Use in Canada’s Prairies: A Comparison between Prairie Virtual Water Demands and Renewable Supplyen_US
dc.typeThesis / Dissertationen_US

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