The Alberta Water Research Institute recently completed an examination of water allocation policies and practices of other jurisdictions facing water challenges similar to Alberta, including the western U.S. and Australia.
Towards Sustainability: Phase I – Ideas and Opportunities for Improving Water Allocation and Management in Alberta, released November 23, 2009, is a comparative review of Alberta’s current policies in relation to other jurisdictions, which outlines a number of ideas and opportunities on how the province can improve its water allocation and management system to better fulfill the three major objectives of Water for Life.
While Phase I outlines some key opportunities for discussion, Phase II of this work will explore a number of future-oriented development scenarios against which to evaluate ideas, opportunities and solutions. Phase II will include a number of workshops with key water stakeholders in 2010 to develop a suite of logical scenarios along with their respective range of solutions.
Towards Sustainability: Phase I – Ideas and Opportunities for Improving Water Allocation and Management in Alberta and a summary report of an international symposium on water allocation held in Calgary in March 2009, are now available.
A full report on the inter-jurisdictional review, conducted by the Water Research Institute in the summer and fall of 2009, is scheduled to be published in December 2009.
The release of the Towards Sustainability report coincides with the release of related reports of the Minister’s Advisory Group on Water Management and Allocation and the Alberta Water Council. All three reports will be used to help build the foundation of a renewed system for Alberta that will be available in summer 2010.
For more information, please contact:
Val Mellesmoen
Director, Communications
Alberta Water Research Institute
+ 1 780 235 2536
