The Canada Water Agency’s president urged Manitoba environmental, energy and infrastructure leads to jointly protect water as major projects ramp up.

“We face some unique water challenges,” Mark Fisher, the federal agency’s president, said in a speech Tuesday.

He addressed roughly 560 attendees at the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association’s largest conference yet, held at the RBC Convention Centre.

Some crowd members — namely, those from Port of Churchill owner Arctic Gateway Group — were tied to projects being eyed by federal and provincial governments.

Both Ottawa and Manitoba have prioritized infrastructure spending in recent budgets and have expressed the need to increase mining.

“In my view, there has never been a more important time than now to think about Canada’s water

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