Canadian Water Summit

WATER AS

A MUNICIPAL ECONOMIC DRIVER

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The national trade association for

Canada’s private home, car and business insurers.

Who is IBC?

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Personal Lines Losses in Canada

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Fire Water Wind/Hail

Water Losses

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Infrastructure Issues

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Municipal Risk Assessment

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Design and condition of water systems;

Operational procedures;

Watershed, topography, soil and

Urban development policies

Municipal Risk Assessment

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water.

Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no

way to change it.

So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful.

Lau TzuFounder of Taoism