Info Links - Prairies

1) Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources released a report on Water in the West (Nov 24, 2005). To get a copy: 613-993-9021

2) The meeting notes for the Prairie Water Policy Symposium (Sept 21-23, 2005) hosted by the IISD have been posted on the website at: http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2005/pwps_notes.pdf.

3) “An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces” by Schindler and Donahue, 2006. Published by the National Academy of Sciences, USA. The article is available as a PDF file at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0601568103v1.pdf

4) The Red River Basin Commission has posted the proceedings of their 2007 Annual Conference at: http://www.redriverbasincommission.org/Conference/Conference_2007_Proceedings/conference_2007_proceedings.html

5) Province rejects the Pembina Valley Water Coop in their attempt to divert water from the Sandilands to south central Manitoba. For a copy of the full Clean Environment Commission report go to:
http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/index.cfm?pageID=70.

6) Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy Forum, Banff, Canada, 2006 - "Program Synopsis and Lessons for Canada and Alberta”: http://rosenberg.ucanr.org/forum5.cfm?displaysection=1.

7) Presentation: Lake Manitoba - A Neglected Great Lake (2.54MB pdf) by Gordon Goldsborough, University of Manitoba, March 7, 2005.

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