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Water

CCME ministers are committed to working collaboratively on key water issues.  CCME’s current water priorities are:
• climate change;
• water valuation;
• groundwater resources and management;
• integration of water, environment and land use planning;
• management approaches to water quantity issues;
• nutrient and trace contaminant loadings to ground and surface waters; and
• public perception of water.

CCME’s Water Agenda Development Committee (WADC) manages intergovernmental approaches to water issues in Canada.  WADC is currently:

  • identifying the hydrologic parameters that should be measured by water monitoring networks in Canada for climate vulnerability assessment and climate change adaptation planning.
  • identifying water valuation information and methods that can be used to address specific water management issue.
  • analyzing climate change impacts on water conservation and scarcity, and the opportunities and challenges that adapting to climate change presents to water conservation and scarcity in Canada.
  • scoping groundwater resources knowledge and management approaches; research on linkages between surface and groundwater management; Canadian jurisdictions’ legal frameworks, and the agencies that deal with groundwater policy issues.



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