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 Items tagged: water stewardshipItems Found: 7Around the WorldJune 20, 2011 - 9:41 am “People ask what Manitoba and Israel could possibly have in common. Well, the answer is water. And we’re learning through collaboration how we can do things better,” says Christine Melnick, Manitoba’s minister of water stewardship. It turns out that Israel isn’t the only country that has... Categories: Features Manitoba District Celebrates Completion of IWM PlanJuly 5, 2010 - 12:47 pm Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick today congratulated the Seine-Rat River Conservation District and its project management team for completing the Seine River integrated watershed management plan, one of the first plans to be initiated in Manitoba. "We recognize and appreciate the Seine-Rat... Categories: News, Western Canada Making Progress on Lake Winnipeg RecommendationsMarch 18, 2010 - 2:29 pm Two years after the release of the Lake Winnipeg Stewardship Board's final report containing 135 recommendations for action, the board has evaluated the progress made by the Government of Manitoba in implementing the recommendations, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick said today, as she released... Categories: News, Western Canada FOE Launches Awareness Project in ManitobaMarch 18, 2010 - 11:22 am Friends of the Earth Canada is launching its new water awareness project, Be True To Blue, in Manitou, Manitoba in cooperation with the Pembina Valley Conservation District and the Manitoba Department of Water Stewardship. The program is supported by Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) Blue Water Project... Categories: News, Western Canada Draft NWT Water Stewardship Strategy ReleasedNovember 6, 2009 - 9:18 am The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada have released the draft Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy. The draft strategy promotes an ecosystem-based approach to integrated watershed management in order to improve water stewardship in the... Categories: News, Northern Canada WWF Releases Rivers at Risk ReportOctober 16, 2009 - 8:14 am Our friends over at WWF-Canada have released a new report, Canada's Rivers at Risk: Environmental Flows and Canada's Freshwater Future (pdf here). The report claims that Canada’s fresh water is in jeopardy due to the effects of climate change and growing water demand. The report uses a scientific... Global Water Roundtable Created: StockholmAugust 21, 2009 - 7:54 am A new initiative launched during World Water Week in Stockholm will establish global standards for water stewardship, with the goal of addressing the global threat of water stress, the increasing pollution of rivers and a decline in freshwater wildlife species. In conjunction with the announcement... Categories: International, News Advertisement
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