PLAN 597
Planning for Water Resources Management
Delegating Water Governance: Issues and Challenges in the B.C. Context
5th March 2008
Delegating water governance to the lowest level where it can be effectively implemented, the subsidiarity principle, is well established in the ideas for IWRM and is a key component of the EU's WFD. Last fall a report was completed by Linda Nowlan and Karen Bakker on implementing delegated water governance in B.C. Presently the report is being used as a point of departure for discusssions in a series of BC workshops. This report is most relevant to our considerations of IWRM and in particular for the design of a national strategy for advancing water management in Canada (Exercise 3). Please read the report in preparation for a breakout discussion addressing the questions:
- In what ways does the Nowlan-Bakker report reflect our emerging understanding of IWRM?
- How might the report be strengthened by including ideas from our emerging understanding?
Reading
Nowlan, L. and Bakker, K. 2007. Delegating Water Governance: Issues and Challenges in the B.C. Context. A paper for the B.C. Water Governance Project, a partnership of the Fraser Basin Council, B.C. Ministry of Environment, Fraser Salmon and Watershed Program, Georgia Basin Living Rivers program, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Prepared by UBC Water Governance Project.