Fresh water is Canada’s most precious resource, vital to our ecology, economy and wellbeing.Although it is relatively abundant in Canada compared to the rest of the world, fresh water is a finiteresource not to be taken for granted, and yet Canada’s water consumption rates are among thehighest in the world. In 2011 the average Canadian […]
Water Quality Attainment Report 2018 -Bings Creek
Cowichan/Bings Watersheds Water QualitySampling: Summer and Fall 2018 Introduction In 2018 the author was contracted by the Cowichan Watershed Board to design, implement and report on water quality sampling in the Cowichan and Koksilah watersheds in a manner that would complement and continue extant sampling by the provincial Ministry of Environment (Smorong. 2015 and Obee […]
CWB Pathways and Partnerships
Pathways and Partnerships: Framework for Collaboration and Reconciliation in the Cowichan Watershed
Nutsamat kws yaay’us tth qa’: We come together as a whole to work together to be stronger as partners for the watershed. Please read and download the report of the Cowichan Watershed Board’s watershed co-governance conversations, which took place from 2017-2018, between its founding partners, Cowichan Tribes First Nation and Cowichan Valley Regional District. Abstract: […]
Water Quality Attainment Report 2017 -Cowichan Koksilah
Cowichan Koksilah WQ 2017-2018 Dave Preikshot IntroductionIn 2017 the author was contracted by the Cowichan Watershed Board to design, implement and report on water quality sampling in the Cowichan and Koksilah watersheds in a manner that would complement and continue extant sampling by the provincial Ministry of Environment (Smorong. 2015 and Obee 2011). Water quality […]