Your Watershed. Your Voice.
Thank you to everyone for attending the Central Forum held September 9, 2010! We received some very valuable feedback! The agenda, powerpoint presentations, and handouts are at the bottom of this page, as well as the notes recorded during discussions.
While we did not discuss the Draft, as it has not yet been approved by the Board for public discussion, we did introduce audience members to the role of the NSWA, the process of the Integrated Watershed Management Plan, and discuss two questions:
1. Should other planning initiatives be referred to in the IWMP?
2. How specific should the IWMP be in terms of its identification of who should do what, and when.
If you would like to add any more thoughts, please feel free to click the link below to send feedback via an online form, or you can email us directly at water@nswa.ab.ca.
Event Details
Date: September 9, 2010
Time:1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Prince of Wales Armoury,10440 108 Avenue, Edmonton
The NSWA is the Watershed Planning and Advisory Council (WPAC) for the North Saskatchewan River watershed under Water for Life: Alberta’s Strategy for Sustainability. It is a multi-stakeholder watershed planning partnership.
The NSWA has completed a wide range of technical studies on the North Saskatchewan River watershed: water supply, water use, water quality, groundwater, economics, cumulative effects assessment and multi-stakeholder engagement. These studies, plus consultations with stakeholder groups at a previous series of Watershed Management Planning Forums are the basis for this DRAFT watershed management plan.
The purpose of the DRAFT Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP) for the North Saskatchewan River watershed is to protect the long-term supply and quality of water resources for future generations. The draft plan is comprehensive, and addresses a diverse range of water, land and development issues. It incorporates stakeholder interests and addresses the current policy context for watershed plan implementation.
Using feedback from a continuing series of meetings and forums, the NSWA will revise the DRAFT plan and submit it to the Government of Alberta in spring of 2011.
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