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A Citizens’ Inquiry into the Monitoring, Management & Protection of our Athabasca Basin Watersheds, Surface & Ground Waters
The Keepers of the Athabasca and their cooperating partners invite you to participate in our March 03 -06 "Keeping the Water : Water is Life…As Long as the Rivers Flow…" Gathering , a free citizens’ forum and stewardship workshop examining the management, monitoring and protection of our Athabasca Basin watersheds and surface and ground waters. These Athabasca meetings are part of an ongoing series of community groundwater and watershed forums held in Athabasca Basin communities this winter. Together with Crooked Creek Conservancy, Safe Drinking Water Foundation, Athabasca University and Science Outreach Athabasca, the Keepers of the Athabasca are hosting three days of water educational meetings here at Athabasca. These events are to be held at several Athabasca Town venues. More detailed information will be posted at the Keepers of the Water website and that of the Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF).
Trout Unlimited Canada’s Yellow Fish Road™ (YFR) program is a national program dedicated to reducing stormwater pollution through education and storm drain marking.
Despite good progress by a multi-stakeholder group in understanding issues around Athabasca River water withdrawals, Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is concerned there will still not be protective water rules for low winter flows. AWA believes oilsands mine river withdrawals must cease during low winter flows.
Joe Obad from Water Matters will be speaking about his report on securing source water protection in southern Alberta
Event is free for members $5 for non-members. A lifetime YEP Membership is $30 and can be purchased at the door.
The Environmental Law Centre’s Consistency and Accountability in Implementing Watershed Plans in Alberta: A jurisdictional review and recommendations for reform is a jurisdictional review focused on comparing law and policy approaches to implementation of collaboratively produced and approved watershed management plans. The review identifies central issues that must be dealt with in a policy framework for implementation of plans.
This publication can be downloaded for free from the Materials Available to Download section of the ELC website.
Website: http://nswa.ab.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=2&reset=1
The health of every community, whether rural or urban, small or large, depends on the health of the watershed in which it resides. The work of the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance centers around the North Saskatchewan River and its watershed, meaning all the lakes and streams that flow into it.
Hosted by the Legislation and Policy Committee of the BRBC
Featuring:
Please RSVP to Mike Murray: mike [dot] murray [at] calgary [dot] ca
Calgary — As a series of public meetings kick off today in Calgary and Vulcan addressing land-use in Southern Alberta, many Albertans may be surprised to learn that water security is at stake in the planning process. That’s the overarching theme of Source of Opportunity: A Blueprint for Securing Source Water in Southern Alberta, a report released today investigating the potential of South Saskatchewan Regional land use plan to protect water.
If the quality of our environment in Southern Alberta is to be maintained in future, then the province’s South Saskatchewan Regional Plan will have to make some hard choices in determining limits and thresholds to human activity.
This is the principal finding in a new Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) report released today. The report, Conservation Recommendations for the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan, makes a series of recommendations to the South Saskatchewan Regional Advisory Council, as the Alberta government’s Land‐Use Framework planning process begins to unfold in southern Alberta.
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