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.