FLOW MONITOR: Canadian Water Policy Watch Much has changed since FLOW's last edition – in particular, the election of a new federal government that has committed to a renewed, nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous governments, to review and modernize key environmental laws and policies, and to make...
Published On: September 21st, 2017 Author: Merrell-Ann Phare, Rosie Simms, Oliver M. Brandes, and Michael Miltenberger Released by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Collaborative Consent and British Columbia’s Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance lays out a viable model for achieving a critical shift towards more equitable...
Published On: June 1st, 2016 Author: Oliver M. Brandes and Tim Morris with Jennifer Archer, Laura Brandes, Michele-Lee Moore, Jon O'Riordan, and Natasha Overduin Recent reports and events exploring the concept of watershed governance have laid a foundation for reform in British Columbia. However, considerable knowledge gaps still exist...
A Report by the BC Real Estate Foundation "Murky Waters, the first in this series, examines the state of freshwater ecosystems in British Columbia. With an ambitious goal in mind, we worked with a committee of water experts to create a framework that includes desired impacts,...
Canada Freshwater Alliance surveyed 30 communities across Canada to assess their adoption of green infrastructure policies and projects. See the summary here. ...
A SNAPSHOT OF COMMUNITY BASED WATER MONITORING IN CANADA You can view the report here: CBM Snapshot Report [caption id="attachment_373" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo Credit: Friends of Kootenay Lake[/caption] You can view the report here: CBM Snapshot Report...
We are so excited to be releasing the final report from our very intensive Community Values Study. We will have the raw data up on our website for use very soon, so please stay tuned if you are interested in accessing this information. If you have any...
With help from the Columbia Basin Watershed Network and Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre we have made a beautiful map with all the individual watersheds around Kootenay Lake. To view map click on this link: Kootenay Lake Watershed Map ...
This report provides an overview of the impacts and benefits of the Columbia River Treaty (the Treaty) to the Columbia Basin (drainages into the main stem of the Columbia River north of the 49th parallel) in Canada and to the Province of B.C....
This project was proposed and developed as a result of the common understanding by the boating industry of the need for sewage pump-out availability and the lack of such services on Kootenay Lake. ...
