Water Balance Model Outreach & Continuing Education Program:

Inter-Governmental Partnership Proceeding with Training Workshops

The Inter-Governmental Partnership has partnered with the Real Estate Foundation to build broad-based support for the ‘design with nature’ approach to rainwater management via an Outreach and Continuing Education Program that comprises seminar presentations and training workshops for a range of audience types.
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Water Balance Model Attracts World-Wide Audience!

Users on four continents have discovered tool developed in British Columbia

The missing link in watershed planning has been a tool that quantifies the benefits - in terms of reducing rainwater runoff volume - of installing source controls under different land use, soil and climate conditions. The Water Balance Model for Canada provides the foundation for a natural systems approach to rainwater anagement. Furthermore, it promotes integration of perspectives that leads to better decision making, and can be applied at three scales: site, subdivision and watershed.
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Water Balance Model Now a National Initiative:

First group of provincial homepages ready for use!

The early success of the Water Balance Model in British Columbia, particularly in promoting an understanding of how to improve the built environment and protect the natural environment, generated interest in expanding the focus of the tool to reach a national audience.
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The Water Balance Model for British Columbia:

Land development and watershed protection can be compatible

"Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia" formalized a science-based understanding to set performance targets for reducing rainwater runoff volumes and rates. These targets represent the synthesis of biological and hydrological understanding. At the heart of the Guidebook is the Water Balance Methodology. Recognizing that practitioners and others needed a tool so that they could readily apply the Methodology, the Inter-Governmental Partnership then developed the Water Balance Model for British Columbia.
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Township of Langley is the latest municipality to become part of the Water Balance Model Partnership

All the major municipalities on the south side of the Fraser River are now partners in the Water Balance Model initiative, namely: Langley Township, Delta, Surrey, Abbotsford and Chilliwack.
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