Through our water and climate program area, we’re undertaking a two-year project to understand the impact of climate change on water availability across the Canadian Prairies.

This project is being undertaken in collaboration with our partners ClimateWest and Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), and support from the RBC Foundation through RBC Tech for Nature. Our project aims to provide governments and the agricultural industry with the science and tools to improve water and crop efficiencies and resiliency to achieve climate adaptation goals in the Prairies. As part of the engagement process and to ensure the applicability of the project results, CWN is working on assembling an expert panel and an end-user panel. When these panels are convened in the early part of 2024, they will lend their expertise, provide insights and guide the project’s outcome.

CWN’s Canadian Municipal Water Consortium has also kicked off a peer-to-peer Strategic Sharing Group focused on municipal stormwater management. Using a climate lens, participants will address developing a business case for stormwater management and climate adaptation. Participants will also develop a business case for weaving grey, green and blue infrastructure to achieve co-benefits and increased resiliency in our communities.