SERIES About the Authors Kenneth P. Green, D. Env., is a member of the Frontier Centre Advisory Board and Project Director of The Environmental State of Canada-30 Years of Environmental Progress. [...] The authors of this study has worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore their own, and do not necessarily refl ect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. [...] Steps have been taken to further improve This report examines the extent to which the quality of Canadian water in the years ahead, notably, dramatic improvements in farmland is seen by the Government of the quality of waste water treatment. [...] This growth in farm productivity and the improvements According to the “ in soil quality suggest that Canadian Environmental Protection agricultural practices have become Index, Canada has the second- markedly more productive and sustainable highest level of water quality over the course of the past 20 years. [...] The exceptions are greenhouse gases This potential wealth could contribute to (which have only recently breached the Canada’s growing quality of life as well as point of perception at the global level) and improve the quality of life for millions of ground-level ozone in a few eastern regions, others around the globe.