Annotated Bibliography of Western Canadian Water Law
Instream Flow
Alberta Environment Website: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/env/water/index.cfm
The Alberta Environment website has a few main topical sites, including this one, which focuses on water. The site contains useful information on different topics relating to water, such as legislation, publications, forms, and water conservation. Also part of this site is Water for Life, the web page for Alberta’s water strategy. Publications available include the Preliminary Report from the Water Use Practice and Policy Advisory Committee, which identifies potential public concerns with oil and gas practices and how these practices could affect the water cycle and the environment. The report begins to address these concerns, providing recommendations on potential conservation strategies. The information on the web site itself is considerable, although basic. The site provides good background knowledge relating to water issues in Alberta.
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Environment
Canada. Federal Water Policy (1987) online: http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/pubs/fedpol/e_fedpol.pdf
This federal policy document identifies five strategies that will help the federal government achieve its overall objective of encouraging efficient and economical freshwater use: realistic water pricing, science leadership, integrated planning, legislation and public awareness. The policy also includes twenty-five specific policy statements, including Water Quality Management, Flooding, Climate Change, Interbasin Transfers and Management of Toxic Chemicals. The policy also includes a brief summary of the constitutional aspects of water policy in Appendix A.
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