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Opinion: Past Alberta leaders' water legacy being betrayed

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Alberta 's major rivers arise from springs and small creeks in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies .

Those mountains and foothills yield more than 80 per cent of our water supply.

Former premier Peter Lougheed knew that the Rockies are vital to our water security.

Albertans rose up and forced the government to bring coal protections back.

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English

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44

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