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The International Watersheds Initiative

28 Oct 2015

The work of Michael Laitta from the U. S. Section of the IJC on all geospatial aspects of the IWI and work by Tara Buchanan of the Canadian Section on project administration greatly contributed to the overall success of the IWI. [...] This led to the binational related to the lack of sufficient IWI funding but water quality modelling effort using the reaffirmed the importance of the IWI to the SPARROW model (Spatially-Referenced government. [...] The Canadian government’s positive response, dated May 27, 2011, focussed on addressing In January 2013, the IRLWWB was established the report’s many recommendations and the with the amalgamation of the International 14 2. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE IWI “The Government of Canada values the work of the International Joint Commission on the International Water- sheds Initiative and looks forward to its co [...] During the flood of 2014, the value of the of information within the basin, and conduct networks built by the IRLWWB, with the support an annual public meeting in the basin, the of its coordinator, was apparent to agencies, membership on the board was expanded to elected officials and much of the general public. [...] Given the importance of the model outputs and the After considering many existing water quality need for analytical tools that facilitate ease of models, the IJC decided to use the SPARROW interpretation, the IJC is collaborating with the model, which had been developed by the USGS on developing an online mapping and USGS.
agriculture environment government politics sustainability flood water science and technology natural resources evaluation eutrophication geography non-governmental organizations rivers ecosystem convention on the protection and use of transboundary watercourses and internati watershed management geographic information system adaptive management hydrological first nations drainage basin alewife bassins hydrographiques geospatial data devils lake (north dakota) spednic lake
ISBN
9780660033518
Pages
74
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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