Running Through Our Fingers: How Canada fails to capture the value of its top asset
Prepared by Steven Renzetti, Diane. P. Dupont and Chris Wood for the Blue Economy Initiative
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When the federal government undertook an inquiry about water in 1985, economist Andrew Muller attempted to find out. He came up with an estimate of between $7.5 and $23 billion. Running Through Our Fingers is an attempt by Steven Renzetti and Diane Dupont — two of Canada’s best environmental economists, to revisit Muller’s analysis and articulate the value of water’s contribution to the Canadian economy.