Join us in welcoming our newest Watershed Stewardship Assistant, Rachel! From beef to bees and birds of prey, Rachel’s background and biodiversity degree are a great fit for this year’s projects. Learn more about Rachel in our latest blog!
On February 29th, the Building Multi-Year Drought Resiliency Workshop was hosted by four southern Watershed Planning and Advisory Councils (WPACs): Oldman Watershed Council, South East Alberta Watershed Alliance, Milk River Watershed Council Canada, and Bow River Basin Council.
The fifth instalment in our "Understanding Drought" blog series is now live. In it, we look beneath the surface and unearth information about groundwater.
Blog #4 in our *Understanding Drought** blog series about the current drought in Alberta. Learn about how Alberta’s water-using sectors have made improvements to water conservation, efficiency, and productivity.
OWC is committed to ecological restoration work in this and every other version of reality. What do we mean by that? No, we’re not talking about Matrix 5: Neo’s Creek (fun as that would be); we’re talking about the OWC’s custom-made watershed stewardship virtual reality program supported by the RBC Foundation.
Overall, the study found that most well owners feel they are not susceptible to well contamination issues because they have not had any health concerns that they linked to their well water quality. Perceived susceptibility is critical, because it helps indicate how motivated people would be to test and/or treat their well.
Lethbridge is set to grow in population - so is the rest of Southern Alberta. Can we be smart about it? Guest blogger Ryan Carriere, Parks Planning Manager of the City of Lethbridge - Infrastructure Services ponders the question, and the OWC offers some insight as well. Alberta is projected to add close to 1.8 million residents over the next 25 years, reaching 6 million by 2041. Now, more than ever before, we must bring watershed vocabulary into our thoughts and actions.
