Links – Collaboration

Collaboration Toolkit: How to Build and Maintain Effective Partnerships to Protect Sources of Drinking Water website developed by the Source Water Collaborative https://sourcewatercollaborative.org/how-to-collaborate-toolkit/

A Handbook for Water Champions: First edition. Strengthening Decision-Making and Collaboration for Healthy Watersheds, published in 2019 by the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Water Sustainability Project. https://poliswaterproject.org/polis-research-publication/handbook-water-champions/

Pathways and Partnerships: A Framework for Collaboration and Reconciliation in the Cowichan Watershed, published in 2018 by the Cowichan Watershed Board. https://poliswaterproject.org/files/2019/01/CWB_PathwaysAndPartnerships_Final_web.pdf

Integrated Drinking Water Management: Considerations for Local Government Administrators, published in 2019 by the Auditor General for Local Government. https://www.aglg.ca/app/uploads/sites/26/2019/03/AGLG-IntegratedWaterManagement-Revision-Final-03-29-2019.pdf

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We are all downstream.

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A healthy watershed is central to clean and abundant source water.

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Establishing setbacks, restoring riparian buffer zones along watercourses, and acquiring watershed segments can save money by preventing costly impacts to source water.

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British Columbia legislation related to source water protection is complicated, and the Government of British Columbia does not have a lead water agency.

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Local action supported by stable funding and consistent and coordinated approaches is imperative to maintaining source water quality.

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Funding for this project was provided by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Interior Health Authority, City of Kelowna, City of West Kelowna and the Okanagan Basin Water Board. This project was also supported through the Healthy Watersheds Initiative, which is delivered by the Real Estate Foundation of BC and Watersheds BC, with financial support from the Province of British Columbia as part of its $10-billion COVID-19 response.