Watershed Stewardship for a Changing Climate – Community-Based Climate Action
With support from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), SAW is beginning the process of developing watershed-based climate change adaptation plans throughout Saskatchewan – for each watershed district, as well as a provincial-wide plan (see map).
With future changes in precipitation (i.e., patterns and variability), temperature (i.e., maximum and minimum temperatures), and extreme events (i.e., droughts and floods), the ability of watersheds to provide water and other critical watershed services will be impacted. Regionally, communities need to understand what climate change issues that they face, and how they can proactively adapt.
The climate change adaptation planning process will help to build each community’s capacity to adapt to climate change impacts and effects by bringing together community members and leadership to develop a plan for adaptation to future climate change.
Over the course of the project, committee members and attendees will participate in various engagement meetings and activities to identify the local effects and impacts of climate change and discuss ways to adapt and become more resilient to these changes.
We will focus our discussion on four topics: natural systems, human health, cultural resources/economic activity, and community infrastructure. Our goal is to ensure we have diverse representation from all communities throughout Saskatchewan.
This project has the following objectives: