Links – Funding

Sustainable Financing in Drinking Water Management: Considerations for Local Government Administrators published in 2020 by the Auditor General for Local Government https://www.aglg.ca/app/uploads/sites/26/2020/12/AGLG-Drinking-Water-Perspectives-Booklet-4_Dec-2020.pdf

Civic Info BC Grants database https://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/grants

Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Funding Opportunities. https://www.fcm.ca/en/funding?f%5B0%5D=filter_by_topicf%3AWater

Government of British Columbia, Infrastructure Planning Grant Program. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/local-governments/grants-transfers/grants/infrastructure-planning-grant-program

Government of British Columbia. Economic Development and Funding Grants. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/economic-development/funding-and-grants

Government of Canada, EcoAction Community Funding Program. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-funding/ecoaction-community-program.html

Government of Canada. Clean Water and Wastewater Fund Program Overview. https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/cwwf/cwwf-program-programme-eng.html

Government of Canada. Environmental Funding Services and Information. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/environment/conservation/funding.html

Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation. Grants. https://hctf.ca/grants/

Okanagan Basin Water Board Water Conservation and Quality Improvement Grant Program. https://www.obwb.ca/overview-grants/

RBC Tech for Nature. https://www.rbc.com/community-social-impact/_assets-custom/pdf/RBC-Tech-For-Nature-EN.pdf

The Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia. REFBC Grants. https://www.refbc.com/grants

World Wildlife Fund. https://wwf.ca/habitat/freshwater/

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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.