Critical Path

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• Critical Path
• CWN created a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral
  network and partnerships to address the
  identified priorities and challenges?
• CWN has demonstrated leadership in integrating
  and synthesizing knowledge to achieve the
  priorities?
• CWN has facilitated the use and uptake of
  knowledge to ensure effective integrated water
  resources management?

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Excellence that can be drawn on exists in each!
Understanding the potential human health impacts
posed by water-related factors
Protecting Public Health
Understanding watersheds and potential threats to
ecosystems and resources
Understanding the potential (capability) of
infrastructure (i.e., technologies and
decision-support strategies)
Protecting Watershed Ecosystems
Ensuring Sustainable Infrastructure
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Potential Key Contributions of Knowledge and
Technology
Prioritizing Needs and Response Strategies for
Drinking Water Monitoring and Treatment
Strategies to Balance Competing Watershed Demands
and Risks
Understanding the potential human health threats
posed by water-related factors
Fully Integrated Water Resources Management
Understanding watersheds and potential threats to
ecosystems and resources
Understanding the potential (capability) of
infrastructure (i.e., technologies and
decision-support strategies)
Formulating Effective Wastewater and Resource
Monitoring and Protection Strategies
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Protecting Watersheds and Ecosystems

• Act as a catalyst
• Critical Path
• CWN created a multidisciplinary multi-sectoral
  network to address the identified priority.
  Watersheds Network
• CWN has demonstrated leadership in integrating
  and synthesizing knowledge to achieve the
  priority. Course Development
• CWN has facilitated the use and uptake of
  knowledge to ensure effective integrated water
  management. UNU-CWN Certificates

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Recommended Short term goals

• A UNIQUE contribution, is to orient the program
  into two themes
• Develop a series of linked watersheds that can
  serve as a model for comparative research, with
  the aim of developing a national and
  international network.
• 2. Hold a Watershed Basin Workshop to develop a
  Network
• 3. Develop an internet-based watershed training
  program that is accessible to students and
  professionals from across Canada
• The specific Focus is on
• a) Comparison, and where appropriate, adoption
  of effective evaluation, protection and
  remediation methods between linked watersheds
• b) identification and development of special
  case studies, to address issues that are not
  unique to all watersheds but require special
  attention
• c) Collaborate with watershed groups to transfer
  knowledge
• d) Development of training courses using the
  knowledge and experiences from the linked
  watershed

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Immediate Path Forward and Progress on Goals

• Goals 1 Create inter-basin partnerships, and
  expand partnerships within basin by creating a
  standardized set of information, and highlight
  basin-specific research priorities. Initially
  the collaboration is between four basins

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Specific Focus in each Basin

• Lower Fraser Basin in B.C
• Focus NPSPollution from Urban Stormwater
  Agricultural Intensification
• South Saskatchewan Basin in Alberta
• Focus Irrigation, climate change
  and modelling
• Grand River Basin in Ontario
• Focus Multiple user conflicts water demand
  management
• St John River in New Brunswick
• Focus Understanding assimilative capacity

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Regional partnerships will expand through the
creation of additional partners to incorporate

• basic GIS with digital elevation models
• land use 30 m resolution
• monitoring sampling stations
• water chemistry
• sediment chemistry
• nutrient levels and inputs
• fish community structure and fish health
• a fish sentinel species with baseline
  performance
• benthic community structure
• groundwater-surface water interactions

• stable isotopes for water, benthos and fish
• geology
• vegetation
• hydrology
• rainfall and weather
• temperature profiles
• pathogen tracking studies
• location of major dischargers
• watershed management challenges
• case studies and success stories

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Goal 2 Water Basins Workshop

• The CWN will host a workshop that will bring
  together various international partners that can
  provide perspective on data requirements for
  watershed management. The result of this
  workshop will be a consensus document describing
  the data needs, which would serve as a template
  for focusing the Canadian watershed studies.
• Scheduled for Fredericton, Week of Feb 26th
• Purpose more detail to add

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Goal 3 course development

• as professional courses
• the core courses would have a core course
  content, but case studies and examples would be
  regionally appropriate
• as credit courses for graduate training
• as part of a multi-institutional undergraduate
  minors program in watershed management
• these courses could be integrated with a series
  of field courses developed (like the CWN field
  course) and have standard local in course
  options (like aquatic ecology, etc) available
  from participating institutions

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CWN Certificate program for Watershed Management

• Details for the four courses under development
• Introduction to Watershed Management
• A comparative Analysis of Canadian Watershed
  Experiences
• Tools and techniques
• Integrated Watershed Management

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• UN initiative to teach the fundamentals of water
  management on a global level
• 10-subject, 250-hour program
• participants receive an academic diploma from the
  United Nations
• INWEH developed the program in partnership with
  the University of Waterloo, over 3y with 1.6
  million (US) from UN Development Account
• created Water Virtual Learning Centres (WVLCs)
• program will be offered through affiliated
  institutions in Africa (Ghana), Asia (Thailand)
  and the South Pacific (Fiji), and North America
  (Canada CRI)
• Ghana and Thailand have begun this year

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• CWN is a catalyst
• core curriculum designed as an undergraduate-level
  program for adult professionals, usually with
  undergraduate degrees but with little or no
  training in Integrated Water Resources Management
  (IWRM)
• Educational programming like that offered
  through the UN Water Virtual Learning Center is
  unique not just within UN University, but the UN
  system as a whole. I can think of no
  international issue more fundamentally important
  than water management to serve as the subject for
  the first-ever UN University Diploma Program.
• Prof. Hans van Ginkel, UN Under Secretary-General
  and Rector of UNU

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UNU Program overview

• participants will progressively build their own
  example of an integrated water resource
  management plan from materials covered in each
  course
• plan will be based on data and information from
  their local region or watershed that they will
  gather and analyze during each course
• then integrate this data and information during a
  final hands-on session at the conclusion of the
  program
• a United Nations University Diploma in IWRM will
  be granted after successful program completion

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HQP Workshops May 2004 Grand River
Watershed Issues May 2005 Lower Fraser Basin
Innovative approaches in Urban
Agricultural Watershed Management June 2006
Saint John River Hands-on multidisciplinary
experiences, building networks and new
perspectives
HQP Development
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Protecting Watersheds and Ecosystems

• Act as a catalyst
• Critical Path
• CWN created a multidisciplinary multi-sectoral
  network to address the identified priority.
  Watersheds Network
• CWN has demonstrated leadership in integrating
  and synthesizing knowledge to achieve the
  priority. Course Development
• CWN has facilitated the use and uptake of
  knowledge to ensure effective integrated water
  management. UNU-CWN Certificates

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Auditors recommendations Watershed Gaps

• Ocean management biodiversity and invasive
  species
• What is target/objective
• What is the size of the problem or progress?
• Wetlands
• What do we need to conserve
• Drinking water
• Sewage, manure, pesticides
• Consequences of BMPs for agriculture
• Consequences of sustainability and pricing
• Abandoned mines and contaminated sites global
  warming
• Groundwater quality and quantity

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CWN Priorities and Integrated Challenges Areas
Strategies to Balance Competing Watershed
Risks Strategies to balance human and ecosystem
needs - models that involve trade offs,
scenarios, consideration of BMP's and adaptation
options to climate change.
Prioritizing Needs and Response Strategies for
Drinking Water Monitoring and Treatment Improved
strategies for risk reduction for drinking water
(particularly for small communities)
Fully Integrated Water Resources
Management Fully integrated water management
strategies at the watershed scale (including
local through regional perspectives, and
infrastructure renewal)
Formulating Effective Wastewater and Resource
Monitoring and Protection Strategies Innovative
approaches to reduce wastewater, improve
monitoring and treatment options
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We are a network of centres of excellence

• How can your centre of excellence contribute to
  where we are going?
• What should we do that would contribute to
  changing the ways that watersheds are managed
• What else can we do?
• Are there other measures of success we should be
  trying to accomplish?
• What can your centre of excellence get excited
  about contributing to
• How can you help us?
• Looking for new watersheds to build network
  larger
• Looking for new ways to synthesize
• Looking for new ways to deliver
• Identify potential partners and end user
  community.
• Who else do we need?