Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on our Water Future
This report offers a perspective on current and emerging water challenges and priorities across Canada through the presentation of issues heard and discussed at the Forum for Leadership on Water’s (FLOW) national discussion series tour “Northern Voices, Southern Choices: Water Policy Lessons for Canada”, held in fall 2011.
To date, water resources have been overused and their true value has been underappreciated in Canada. In light of current and forthcoming challenges, including the significant consequences of a changing climate, it is becoming increasingly clear that a new paradigm of water management and policy will be needed in this country.
Bob Sandford, a leading Canadian water expert and co-chair of FLOW, travelled across the country to share lessons learned from the Northwest Territories’ recently drafted Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water Stewardship Strategy. This document elaborates on the water challenges facing Canadians and reports on what Bob Sandford heard from the panellists and audiences during the course of the two-month, 16-city tour.
