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A Snapshot of CBWM in Canada

Status:	Completed
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Policy, Survey

Community-based monitoring (CBM) is providing invaluable support to the monitoring of Canada’s…

Action for Healthy Watersheds

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring

Action for Healthy Watersheds is aimed at educating and empowering local community-groups…

Alberta Groundwater Program

Status:	Active
Locations:	Alberta
Water Bodies:	Groundwater
Type:	Assessment, Monitoring

The Alberta Groundwater Program is a large-scale pilot project that will serve…

Applied Reconciliation: Indigenous Partnership Building

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow, Stormwater
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, Protocol Development, Restoration

Applied Reconciliation refers to our water stewardship actions in Canada’s unceded traditional…

Brilliant Headpond Stewardship Collaborative

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Assessment, Monitoring, SHIM, Survey

For the past 74 years, the Brilliant Headpond has been managed for…

CABIN (Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network)

Status:	Active
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, CABIN

Living Lakes Canada was one of the first non-governmental organizations to be…

Canada Water Week

Status:	Completed
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow, Stormwater, Wetlands
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, CABIN, SHIM, Restoration, Survey

Canada Water Week is a week-long celebration of water from coast-to-coast-to-coast that…

Centre of Water Excellence for Youth

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, Protocol Development, Restoration

Living Lakes Canada’s Centre for Water Excellence delivers youth-specific programming to promote…

Collaborative Monitoring Initiative

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring

Improving outcomes for water sustainability and watershed health by learning from, supporting,…

Columbia Basin Groundwater Monitoring Program

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Groundwater
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Monitoring

The Upper Columbia Basin Groundwater Monitoring Program is increasing our understanding of…

Columbia Basin Water Hub

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, Policy, Protocol Development

The Columbia Basin Water Hub is a central platform where water data…

Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, Protocol Development

The Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework is an NGO-led, collaborative project that…

Columbia River Wetlands

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Wetlands
Type:	Assessment, Data, Survey

Monitoring and restoring water levels in the Columbia Wetlands to enhance ecosystem…

Community-Based Water Monitoring Survey Highlights

Status:	Completed
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Policy

A powerful means of achieving shared water management and sustainability objectives, Community-based…

Cultural Connections Pilot Project

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia, National
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, CABIN, Protocol Development

Living Lakes Canada is partnering with First Nation communities across British Columbia…

Duck Bay (Kootenay Lake) Restoration Project

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Stormwater, Wetlands
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Filtration, Monitoring, Restoration, Water Treatment

Together with the City of Nelson and in partnership with the Friends…

Eastern Slopes Community-Based Aquatic Monitoring Collaborative

Status:	Completed
Locations:	Alberta
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, CABIN

Living Lakes Canada has launched a community-based aquatic monitoring program across the…

Flathead River Biomonitoring Program

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Monitoring

The Flathead River Biomonitoring Program aims to understand the impacts of timber…

Foreshore Integrated Management Planning

Status:	Active
Locations:	Alberta, British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Assessment, Monitoring, SHIM, Policy, Protocol Development

Foreshore Integrated Management Planning (FIMP — previously known as Sensitive Habitat Inventory…

High Elevation Monitoring Program

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring

High elevation ecosystems, which mark the headwaters of many freshwater systems in…

iTrackDNA & Targeted eDNA

Status:	Active
Locations:	Alberta, British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National, Ontario
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, CABIN, Protocol Development

Targeted eDNA is a method whereby samples are collected from areas of…

Kootenay Lake Partnership

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Assessment, Monitoring, SHIM, Survey

The Kootenay Lake Partnership (KLP) was formed in 2010 as a multi-agency…

Kootenay Watershed Science

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia, Columbia Basin
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring

Most West Kootenay communities depend on small streams for domestic and agricultural…

Lac La Biche Region Watershed Stewardship Society (Healthy Waters Lac La Biche)

Status:	Completed
Locations:	Alberta
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Assessment, Monitoring, SHIM

Living Lakes Canada supported the creation of the Lac La Biche Region…

Lake Koocanusa Shoreline Mapping

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, Restoration, Survey

Lake Koocanusa is a reservoir on the Kootenay River system formed by…

National Lake Blitz

Status:	Active
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data

The National Lake Blitz engages community volunteers all across Canada to monitor…

National Roundtable on CBWM

Status:	Completed
Locations:	National
Water Bodies:	Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Snow, Wetlands
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Policy

The key objective of the National Roundtable on Community-Based Water Monitoring was…

STREAM & DNA Metabarcoding

Status:	Active
Locations:	Alberta, British Columbia, Columbia Basin, National, Ontario
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Data, Monitoring, CABIN, Protocol Development

Sequencing the Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring (STREAM) is a pilot…

The Lake Windermere Project

Status:	Completed
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring, Survey

Lake Windermere is the most heavily-used body of water in the entire…

Upper Athabasca Watershed Health Assessment Project

Status:	Completed
Locations:	Alberta, British Columbia, National
Water Bodies:	Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Wetlands
Type:	Assessment, Citizen Science, Monitoring, CABIN, Survey

n October 2013, 670-million litres of coal mine waste was spilled into…

Water Stewardship Groups

Status:	Completed
Locations:	Alberta, British Columbia, National
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Citizen Science, Community Based Monitoring, Monitoring

Living Lakes Canada empowers communities to take care of the water central…

Watershed Restoration Program

Status:	Active
Locations:	British Columbia
Water Bodies:	Rivers, Creeks and Streams, Wetlands
Type:	Assessment, Data, Monitoring, Protocol Development, Restoration, Survey

The Living Lakes Canada Restoration Program is working toward enhancing watershed health,…

Yukon Lakes Monitoring Initiative

Status:	Active
Locations:	Yukon
Water Bodies:	Lakes
Type:	Community Based Monitoring, Protocol Development

The overarching objective of the Yukon Lakes Monitoring Initiative is to understand…