You are invited to join the discussion!

The NSWA is engaging with community leaders who live and do business within the North Saskatchewan Watershed. Discussion began in February 2009 with Rural Municipalities. A second meeting was held with this group in December 2009. We are now opening up these meetings to other community leaders in the watershed. You are invited to join the discussions taking place in each of the Headwaters, Central and Downstream sub-regions.

Please go to our Planning Forums section for more details...

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Watershed Management Planning Opportunities for Municipalities

February 10, 2009 - The North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance invited rural municipalities within the NSR watershed to join in a wide-ranging discussion about the integrated watershed management planning in the NSR watershed over the next two to three years. The workshop explored collaborative watershed planning and management. The NSWA presented updates on recent work done on water quality and quantity and upcoming work planned for ground water and ecosystem management. Municipalities identified and explained their planning issues, challenges and successes in the watershed. As well, the discussion explored how an effective partnership for watershed planning could be established with the NSWA. The Workshop was directed at representatives of Counties and Municipal Districts within the watershed.

This workshop was part of the February 10-12th joint conference with the Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin.

The goals of this workshop were to:

  • Describe watershed planning directions and goals under Water for Life and outline NSWA's basin-wide progress to date;
  • Identify watershed and planning issues most relevant to counties;
  • Identify the content of the IWMP that would be most relevant to counties' needs; and
  • Evaluate potential for collaborative development of the IWMP.