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The Bilateral Management Committee (BMC) has released this Annual Water Quality Report as a component of the 2016-2017 Alberta (AB)-Northwest Territories (NWT) BMC Annual Report to Ministers. The report presents an assessment of the water quality data collected in the 2016 calendar year and the cooperative efforts of the AB-NWT water quality technical team in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.

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Publication date: 
June 2020
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Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
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Reports and Studies
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The 2017 Alberta-NWT Transboundary Water Quantity Technical Report provides an overview of 2017 water quantity data in the Hay and Slave River basins. Total annual streamflow in the Slave River in 2017 was slightly above average (105% of normal) while total annual flow in the Hay River was lower than average (46% of normal). On the Slave River annual consumptive use was well below 2 billion m3 , at 1.03 billion m3 . The pre-defined threshold of 2 billion m3 remained at 1.9% of the long term mean annual streamflow. On the Hay River, the total volume of groundwater and surface water licences exceeded 2.5% of the natural flows at the border in November, December, February, and March. This exceeded Trigger 1 and prompted analysis of Trigger 2. Actual water use was less than 1% of the natural flow at the border in all months, which was lower than the Trigger 2 threshold of 4% and also lower than the interim objective of 5%.

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Publication date: 
June 2020
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

The Bilateral Management Committee (BMC) releases a water quality report as a component of the annual reporting requirements of the Alberta-Northwest Territories Bilateral Water Management Agreement (AB-NWT BWMA) each year. This is the third water quality report since the signing of the Agreement in 2015. It presents an assessment of the water quality data collected in the 2017 calendar year and the cooperative efforts of the AB-NWT water quality technical team in the 2017-2018 fiscal year. 

  • En anglais seulement
Publication date: 
June 2020
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File