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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…