BRWA’s Watershed Management Planning (WMP) Process looks broadly at watershed management in a manner that integrates land management, water quality and quantity, wetlands, riparian areas, protected areas, biodiversity, socio-economic factors, and more.
This is a collaborative process that seeks to involve the whole range of residents, stakeholders, and decision-makers who can make a difference in how we manage land and water in this region. With input and involvement from this range of people, the process is guided by our WMP Steering Committee and progresses from background research to policy advice and implementation guidelines, and then to implementation. We aim to always move from words to action.
The WMP process employs adaptive management. This means that if what we have proposed does not work, we re-evaluate it, ask watershed residents and stakeholders what should be done differently, and modify what needs to be done so that it does work, or is improved. At the BRWA, we are always interested in hearing from watershed residents about what they value and how they envision their priorities playing out in our work.
To achieve watershed resilience and sustainability, we need to consider Water Quality, Water Quantity, Land Management, and Biodiversity.
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