Links – Source Water Protection Toolkit

Follow these links to additional resources and information.

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

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/

Links – Policies, plans and bylaws

Preparing for Climate Change: An Implementation Guide for Local Governments in British Columbia, published in 2012 by West Coast Environmental Law. https://www.wcel.org/sites/default/files/publications/WCEL_climate_change_FINAL.pdf

Green Bylaws Toolkit. https://stewardshipcentrebc.ca/green-bylaws-toolkit/

Links – Education and engagement

Source Water Protection Justification Toolkit published in 2019 by the American Water Works Association. https://www.awwa.org/Portals/0/AWWA/ETS/Research/Final_Source%20Water%20Protection%20Toolkit.pdf?ver=2019-10-10-122210-203

Econics, 2018. Regional District of Nanaimo Drinking Water & Watershed Protection Program: 10 Year Response Plan Implementation Review. https://www.rdn.bc.ca/dms/documents/dwwp-reports/region-wide-reports/10_year_action_plan_implementation_review_-_september_2018.pdf

Hayhoe, K., TEDWomen, 2018. The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it. https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it

Schmitz, P., Leading Inside Out, 2017. Community Engagement Toolkit. https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/sites/default/files/Community%20Engagement%20Toolkit.pdf

Links – Natural assets and green infrastructure

Integrating Natural Assets into Asset Management published by Asset Management B.C. in 2019. https://www.assetmanagementbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Integrating-Natural-Assets-into-Asset-Management.pdf

The Partnership for Water Sustainability in B.C., 2019. Primer on the Ecological Accounting Process (EAP): A Methodology for Valuing the “Water Balance Services” Provided by Nature. https://waterbucket.ca/gi/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/Primer-on-Ecological-Accounting-Process_Jan-2019.pdf

Natural Asset Primer published by the Municipal Natural Asset Initiative in 2018. https://mnai.ca/media/2018/01/FCMPrimer_Jan1_2018.pdf

Constructed Wetlands for Stormwater Management: An Okanagan Guidebook prepared for the OBWB by Associated Environmental in 2018. https://www.obwb.ca/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2018_constructed_wetlands_guidebook.pdf

What are Municipal Natural Assets: Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets (2019). https://mnai.ca/media/2019/07/SP_MNAI_Report-1-_June2019-2.pdf

The Trust for Public Land and American Water Works Association Source protection handbook. Using Land conservation to protect drinking water supplies https://www.tpl.org/sites/default/files/cloud.tpl.org/pubs/water_source_protect_hbook.pdf

Putting a Value on Ecological Services https://waterbucket.ca/gi/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/Primer-on-Ecological-Accounting-Process_Jan-2019.pdf

Asset Management for Sustainable Service Delivery – A B.C. Framework 2019 https://www.assetmanagementbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Asset-Management-for-Sustainable-Service-Delivery-A-BC-Framework-.pdf

Parrott, L. and Kyle, C, 2014. The Value of Natural Capital in the Okanagan. http://complexity-ok.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2014/10/The-value-of-natural-capital-in-the-Okanagan.pdf

Links – Emergency preparedness and response

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, 2014. Emergency Response Plan for Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities: Guide and Template. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/aadnc-aandc/R3-203-2014-eng.pdf

City of Nanaimo, 2017. Water System Emergency Plan. https://www.nanaimo.ca/docs/default-document-library/water-system-emergency-plan-2017.pdf

Ministry of Health, 2017. Emergency Response and Contingency Planning for Small Water Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Emergency Response and Contingency Plan for Your Small Water System. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/keeping-bc-healthy-safe/healthy-communities/ercp-sws-final-july-14-2016.pdf

Links – Monitoring and reporting

BC Wildlife Federation Conservation App. https://bcwf.bc.ca/initiatives/conservation-app/#:~:text=Conservation%20at%20your%20fingertips,now%20easier%20to%20use%20offline.

FrontCounter B.C. http://www.frontcounterbc.gov.bc.ca/

Geography Open Textbook, 2014. British Columbia in a Global Context: Tools for Spatial Data Collection and Utilization. https://opentextbc.ca/geography/back-matter/tools-for-spatial-data-collection-and-utilization/

Government of British Columbia, Share Your Water Data. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-science-data/water-data-tools/real-time-water-data-reporting/water-data-submission

Government of British Columbia, EcoCat Ecological Reports Catalogue. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/research-monitoring-reporting/libraries-publication-catalogues/ecocat

Government of British Columbia, iMapBC. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/geographic-data-services/web-based-mapping/imapbc

Government of British Columbia, Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)
The Interactive Map is a map of all monitoring data/sites that have been uploaded to BC’s EMS database. You can navigate to location you are interested in and click on the dot. This will bring up a menu that allows you to download or view data for that site. It can be accessed at the following website: https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0ecd608e27ec45cd923bdcfeefba00a7

The Web Reporting Main Menu is a less visual way to access the same data. You can use the data search and download button to download the data you are interested in. Sites are all coded by an EMS number, and you can search by that number or a name. This interface allows you to download data for multiple sites at the same time. It can be accessed at the following website: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/ems/mainmenu.do?userAction=mainmenu

Guidance on how to use the system and help emails can be found here:

Government of British Columbia, Real-Time Water Data. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-science-data/water-data-tools/real-time-water-data-reporting

Government of British Columbia, Report All Poachers and Polluters. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/natural-resource-law-enforcement/conservation-officer-service/cos-rapp

Okanagan Basin Water Board, Water Quality Database. https://www.obwb.ca/wqdb/

Real-Time Hydrometric Data Map Search, Water Survey of Canada. https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/google_map/google_map_e.html?map_type=real_time&search_type=province&province=BC

Links – Mapping

Refer to TOOLS > Mapping

Links – General

Considerations for Local Government Elected Officials: Primer on Drinking Water Management in BC, published in 2018 by the Auditor General for Local Government. http://www.aglg.ca/app/uploads/sites/26/2018/12/AGLG-Primer-on-Drinking-Water-Mgmt-Booklet.pdf

Drinking Water & Watershed Protection Program: 10 Year Action Plan Implementation Review, published by the Regional District of Nanaimo in 2018. https://www.rdn.bc.ca/dms/documents/dwwp-reports/region-wide-reports/10_year_action_plan_implementation_review_-_september_2018.pdf

Well Protection Toolkit, published in 2000 by the Ministry of Environment. https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wsd/plan_protect_sustain/groundwater/wells/well_protection/wellprotect.html

Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water: An Update on Drinking Water Protection in BC and the Action Plan for Safe Drinking water in British Columbia, prepared in 2019 by the Provincial Health Officer. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/air-land-water/water/documents/pho-drinking-water-report-2019.pdf

Hullcar (Clcahl) Aquifer Response Plan Report, prepared in 2018 by the Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/air-land-water/site-permitting-and-compliance/hullcar/review-docs/hullcar_aquifer_response_plan.pdf

The Protection of Drinking Water: An Independent Audit Report, published in 2019 by the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia https://www.bcauditor.com/sites/default/files/publications/reports/OAGBC_Protection-of-Drinking-Water_RPT.pdf

Auditor General for Local Government, 2018. Perspective Series: considerations for local government elected officials, primer on drinking water management in BC. http://www.aglg.ca/app/uploads/sites/26/2018/12/AGLG-Primer-on-Drinking-Water-Mgmt-Booklet.pdf.

Advancing Freshwater Protection: Tools and opportunities in British Columbia’s Water Sustainability Act, prepared in 2018 by the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Water Sustainability Project. https://poliswaterproject.org/files/2018/09/POLIS-WSATools-webfinal.pdf

From Crisis to Solutions, Towards Better Source Water Protection and Nutrient Management in the Hullcar Valley, Oliver Brandes, Nov 2017

Towards Watershed Security, the Role of Water in Modernized British Columbia Land Use Planning, Oliver Brandes, Rosie Simms, Jon O’Riordan with Gwen Bridge, July 2020

Advancing Freshwater Protection, Oliver Brandes, Rosie Simms (POLIS), September 2018

First Nations On-Reserve Source Water Protection Plan, published by Indigenous Services Canada.- https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1398369474357/1533667689697

Best Management Practice Toolkit Volume II, prepared in2016 for the City of Vancouver. https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/integrated-stormwater-management-best-practice-toolkit-volume-2.pdf

United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. Stormwater best management practice design guide: volume 1, general considerations https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?Lab=NRMRL&dirEntryId=99739

United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. Stormwater best management practice design guide: volume 2, vegetative biofilters https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=901X0B00.TXT

United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. Stormwater best management practice design guide: volume 3, basin best management practices nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/2000D1L8.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Inde