Building Adaptation Skills for Water Management

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am PDT

Building Adaptation Skills for a Changing Climate Webinar Series!

The Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) Program, led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is delivering a fall webinar series focused on sharing experiences on how to build climate change adaptation skills. The webinars will feature the results of over 20 co-funded projects.

Building Adaptation Skills for Water Management

Presentations:

Building Adaptation Skills to improve Agricultural Water Management in Saskatchewan: Best Practices for the Prairies and other Agricultural Communities.
Helping prairie and other farmers plan drainage projects that are adapted & resilient to weather extremes, such as floods & droughts, while increasing productivity.
– Heather Davies, External Quality Specialist, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency

Building Adaptation Skills to Improve the response of Saskatchewan Communities to Hydrologic Drought: Lessons Learned for Rural and Urban Communities on the Prairies.
Helping agricultural communities better understand climate change and how they can manage their community water supply in times of drought.
– Doug Johnson, Executive Director of Economic Development, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency

Atlantic Canada Water and Wastewater Guideline Updates
Incorporating Climate Resilience for Municipal Infrastructure into the Updates of Existing Atlantic Canada Water and Wastewater Design Guidelines.
– Lindsay Bolton, P.Eng, Group Lead, Water Resources and Climate Change
– Amy Winchester, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Senior Engineer / Project Manager

Register for this webinar on Zoom!