Water Links
A Canada-wide water strategy requires a coordinated and adaptive approach to the management of Canadian freshwater resources. It must empower decision makers and citizens to be socially and environmentally responsible at the watershed scale.
The development of a Canada-wide water strategy needs to be inclusive and engage a diverse range of actors including all levels of government, First Nations, civil society organizations, watershed groups, the business community, and citizens.
As the concern for water security grows, an increasing number of non-government organizations, academic institutions and government agencies are becoming involved in the ongoing water policy discussion. Click on the following categories to find links to some of these groups.
FLOW Member Organizations
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
- Nature Québec
- Soil and Water Conservation
- United Nations International Decade “Water for Life” Decade
- University of Victoria’s POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
- WWF-Canada
Non-governmental Organizations
- Alliance for Water Efficiency
- Canadian Environmental Law Association
- Canadian Water and Wastewater Association
- Canadian Water Network
- Canadian Water Resources Association
- Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
- Council of Canadians
- EcoJustice (formally Sierra Legal)
- Friends of the Earth
- Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
- Great Lakes United
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Pollution Probe
- Safe Drinking Water Foundation
- Sierra Club Canada
- Water Matters
Academic Institutions
- Institute for Watershed Science (Trent University)
- Munk Centre for International Studies (University of Toronto)
- Water Policy and Governance Group (University of Waterloo)
Government Agencies
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
- Freshwater - Natural Resources Canada
- Freshwater Website - Environment Canada
- International Joint Commission
- Mackenzie River Basin Board
- National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy
- Policy Research Initiative
- Prairie Provinces Water Board
- Western Water Stewardship Council
