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To promote collaboration and leadership amongst nationally distributed water networks, a partnership fund has been established as an integral part of the RésEau initiative. Sixteen partnership projects including all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and communities have been supported to demonstrate key RésEau principles.
Year One
Year Two
- An Infectious Disease Application for RésEau
- Data of Atlantic Community Aquatic Projects (Data ACAP)
- Estimating Annual Chemical Loads for the Pacific and Yukon Region Water Quality Network
- Know-Your-Watershed
- National Real-Time Hydrological Conditions Mapping
- On-line Distribution of Data and Information on the Water Quality of the St. Lawrence River
- Pathways-Phoenix: Web Portal for Decision Support in Sustainable Water Management
- Prince Edward Island Public Internet Water Data Access Project
- Seasonal Waters Monitoring and Reporting System (SWMRS)
- The Canada Water Accounts: From Science to Information
- Water Consumption Calculator for Youth and Citizens
- Web Coverage Service for Groundwater Information
Building Water Connections in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory
Environment Canada
This project plays an important role in determining long term trends in water quality, identifying emerging aquatic ecosystem impacts and providing decision-making resource information to Canadians. Led by Environment Canada, the project enables the timely Web-based access to essential surface and groundwater quality data and information held by the provincial government and territorial agencies and organizations. A component of this project engages First Nations in the Yukon Territory in identifying current water quality monitoring in their communities.
Web site: www.waterquality.ec.gc.ca
Contact: Beverley McNaughton, Environment Canada
Creation of a youth portal for ecological water monitoring
Comité de valorisation de la rivière Beauport (CVRB)
Over 10, 000 youth across Quebec and Ontario are currently engaged in the Comité de valorisation de la rivière Beauport (CVRB) and the Freshwater Fish Ecowatch Network at Environment Canada's Biosphere. The data collected through these two projects will be made available on-line to all Canadians for the first time through this project. Visit www.cvrb.qc.ca or the Biosphere ObservAction Network
Web site: www.biosphere.ec.gc.ca or www.cvrb.qc.ca
Contact: Tony Denis, Comité de valorisation de la rivière Beauport
Ecology of Sackville First Lake
Sackville High School
An exciting project from Sackville High School in Nova Scotia that engages students and teachers in publishing and presenting water quality data collected by students at the lake located behind their school. Students from Science, English, French Language Arts, Film and Video Production, Geography and the school's learning centre are all involved in this multi-facetted project. Students are presenting their final results to community leaders as part of the project.
Web site: www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca
Contact: Marilyn MacGibbon, Sackville High School
Engaging Ontario Communities to Participate in CGDI
Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
Through the Watersheds InfoXchange (WIX), the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds is empowering communities to become more involved in protection of their water resources. WIX is an interactive on-line tool for managing water quality monitoring data and accessing provincial and national datasets. Community groups can also access monitoring protocols, input their own water quality data, and view organization profiles to learn about other activities in their watershed.
Web site: www.ontariowatersheds.ca
Contact: Sarah Rosolen, Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
Year two project details coming soon. |
