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Comox Lake Initiative Strengthens Role of Nature in Protecting Drinking Water
In 2019, several Comox Valley communities and the K’òmoks First Nation launched a multi-year initiative with the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) to help better understand, measure, and manage critical drinking water services provided by nature.
The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD), City of Courtenay, Town of Comox, Village of Cumberland, and K’òmoks First Nation signed a memorandum of understanding with the MNAI to value natural assets in the Comox Lake watershed, which provides safe, reliable drinking water, and environmental, cultural and economic benefits to the valley.
The project will include a watershed-scale inventory and condition assessment of natural assets and modelling of scenarios such as climate change, different management strategies, in-fill, land acquisition, or other variables.
