The goal of the project was to enhance water security in Canada by developing, promoting and implementing innovative ways to identify, manage and mitigate threats to water quality and quantity.
Collaborative approaches to water governance in Canada happen when diverse groups of people and organizations with a common interest work together to identify challenges and develop solutions. This project will address challenges related to water governance, based on a past CWN-funded project.
This project provides information on the performance and socio-economic implications of Best Management Practices. It also developed strategies to remediate impacts from regional-scale application of nutrients on land, with an emphasis on the magnitude and timing of potential reductions in impacts to groundwater quality.
Source water protection is important for drinking water safety, as well as for ensuring adequate quality and quantity of water for the environment, industry and recreation. Dr. de Loë’s team sought to improve understanding of key knowledge gaps related to water governance, and to ultimately improve source water protection processes and outcomes in Canada.
In partnership with the Province of Alberta, this project aims to evaluate the magnitude and likelihood of wildfire occurrence in source water regions in Alberta and assess the impact of these wildfires to downstream water utilities.
Groundwater users and regulators, in regions with groundwater nitrate issues, need a scientific and economic framework to aid in decision-making about various treatment and source control options. This project, gives guidance to design groundwater monitoring programs and construct supply wells that maximize production and limit nitrate-rich groundwater capture.
The project aims to advance understanding in three aspects of groundwater source protection — (1) assessment of aquifer and well vulnerability, (2) assessment of beneficial management practices designed to preserve water quality, specifically in agricultural settings, and (3) economic evaluation of scenarios available to municipal authorities charged with managing water resources.
This project’s overarching objectives are to develop a monitoring and modeling framework for municipal partners that integrates information on the sources, fate and transport of microbial contaminants in their source waters, to rank threats and assess vulnerability for better mitigation strategies, and to make better water infrastructure investment decisions.
Little is known about the links between waterborne illnesses and climate change in small and aboriginal communities. To better equip these communities with best protocols for future water management and source water protection, the effects of climate change on contamination of surface water supplies was examined.
The goal of the research project was to improve water security in Canada by enhancing governance for source protection and land use through the generation of an integrative definition of water security and the development of a comprehensive water security framework.