20th October

Class Exercises

In two groups of nine and ten, as listed below, please respond to the three assigned tasks, on the indicated schedule.

You have been invited to advise BC Premier Christy Clark on the potential of IWRM for strengthening approaches to water resources management. While attending the recent Davos meetings the Premier participated in a session organized by members of the Global Water Partnership on the potential of IWRM to lead to sustainable water management. It sounded most interesting and seemed like a strategy that might give fresh impetus to the Province's Water Smart initiative. As experts in diverse aspects of water resources management with extensive experience in BC and internationally, she has asked you to advise her on how IWRM might be useful in BC. To do this she has brought you together for an afternoon to address the three questions below. To help bring out different views she has asked you to work in two groups that would each address the same questions.

3.30-4.25

What are IWRM principles and what specific innovations do they suggest making in BC's approach to water management?

4.30-5.25

What are the challenges in implementing the suggested IWRM innovations in BC? How can they be met?

5.30-6.25

Given the role of the Federal Government in water management in Canada, what innovations should BC recommend that the Federal Government adopt and implement?

Please use a sheet of flip chart paper to explain your conclusions to the rest of the class. We will reconvene after 20 minutes group discusssion of each question and each group will have 5 minutes to outline its results as a basis for plenary discussion of each topic in turn.

Today you will be working in larger groups on complex questions. To be productive it will be particularly important to organize your group work with care. Think about what you have read and your experiences in previous classes in using a facilitator, note taker, a time keeper, and a designated presenter, and the use of an agenda and ways to quickly generate ideas.

Group 1

Tamara, Kerri, Thomas D., Yaheli, Jason, Gordon, Ilana, Soheila, Kate

Group 2

Erica, Jessie, Maria, Yazmin, Andrew, Cam, Josh, Rupert, Roanna