In December 2022, the governments of Canada and Manitoba agreed to support the Seal River Watershed Alliance in undertaking a feasibility study to establish an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA). The proposed IPCA was featured as one of four global examples of how Indigenous peoples relate to land, water, culture and language at [...]

Perth is a city of around two million people in Western Australia. After watching its inflows reduce steadily over 40 years, Water Corporation – the water utility for Perth and most of Western Australia – embarked on an innovative program to diversify its water supply in the face of a drying climate. Now, the [...]

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered the 2023 federal budget on March 28. While most measures that caught the headlines were focused on cost-of-living relief, Budget 2023 was the most significant freshwater budget in decades. This is what we know so far: Creation of a Canada Water Agency (CWA) The federal government has confirmed that [...]