Publications

Workshop Reports

Development of Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water Stewardship Strategy

A number of workshops took place during the development of Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water Stewardship Strategy (the Water Strategy), culminating in the publication of the Strategy in May 2010. These workshops included:

• January 28, 2009 Development of Vision and Principles (Draft workshop report)
• March 4-5, 2009 Role of Traditional Knowledge (Summary notes)
• March 12-13, 2009 Information Needs (Draft workshop report and Appendix)
• May 21, 2009 Strengthening Relationships (Draft workshop report)
• October 7-8, 2009 Taking Stock Workshop

Additionally, two conferences related to the development of the Water Strategy took place during 2009:

• June 15-16, 2009 Science in the Changing North (Conference report)
• August 2009 Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy to the Government of the Northwest Territories (Report)

Development and Implementation of NWT Water Stewardship: Plan for Action 2011-2015

A number of workshops and discussions took place during various phases of development and implementation of  NWT Water Stewardship: A Plan for Action 2011-2015, culminating in the publication of the Action Plan in May 2011. These workshops included:

• November 3-4, 2010 Action Planning Workshop
• November 22-23, 2011 Keeping up the Momentum -NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Action Plan Implementation Workshop (Final Summary Report)
• January 24, 2013 Strengthening our Progress - NWT Water Stewardship Strategy ( Final Summary Report)
• December 9, 2013 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation Workshop  (Final Summary Report)
• February 4-5, 2015 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation Workshop (Final Summary Report)
• November 3-4, 2015  NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation Workshop (Final Summary Report)

Implementation of NWT Water Stewardship Strategy: Action Plan 2016-2020

Two annual implementation workshops have been held under the implementation of Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Action Plan 2016-2020, including:

• November 8-9, 2016 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation Workshop (Final Summary Report)
• November 22-23, 2017 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation Workshop
  • Workshop Agenda
  • Workshop Presentations

Implementation Progress 

• NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation- Progress Report April 2011- March 2013

• NWT Water Stewardship Report Card - April 2011-March 2013

• Independent Evaluation of the NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Implementation - Evaluation Report 2015

• 2016/2017 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Progress Review Summary 

  • 2016/2017 NWT Water Stewardship Strategy Progress Review Comprehensive Raw Data Spreadsheet

Community-based Monitoring

NWT-wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring Program

• Bringing Water Quality Results Back to Your Community - 2012 Results from the NWT-wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring Program.
• NWT-wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring (CBM) Program- 2013 Results.
• Calendar 2014- NWT Community-Based Water Monitoring
  • (Due to the size of the document, it is split into two parts. Paper copies be sent upon request to nwtwaterstrategy@gov.nt.ca)
    • Part1
    • Part2
• To access water quality datasets from NWT-Wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring Program from 2012-2014, go to Mackenzie DataStream. 
• Bringing Water Quality Results Back to Your Community - Summary of results from 2012-2014 from the NWT-wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring Program.

Slave River and Delta Partnership 

• Our Water, Our Life: Building the Partnerships to Assess the Health of the Slave River and Slave River and Delta
• State of the Knowledge of the Slave River and Slave River Delta Report
• Vulnerability Assessment of the Slave River and Delta Report

Sediment Quality Study (Slave River Delta) 2012

• Research Progress Report 2012
• Research Progress Report 2014

Regional Fish Health Study 2012-2013 

• POSTER Exposure of Fish to Metals Potentially Derived from Oilsands Operations
• POSTER Exposure of Fish to PAHs Potentially Derived from Oilsands Operations
• POSTER Health Status and Biomarker 

Enhancing Community-based Aquatic Monitoring Workshops

• Dettah 2010 Workshop Report
• Yellowknife 2011 Workshop Report
• Recommendations

Funding Opportunities

There are many funding opportunities available that could help to develop and implement community-based monitoring programs. The calendar for 2012 contains information about different funding agencies and useful tips for proposal writing.

• Calendar 2012 – Community-based Monitoring Funding Opportunities
• GNWT 2011 Funding Report

Monitoring Resources

• Monitoring parameters 
• Equipment and other monitoring resources 
• Northern Waters: A Guide to Designing and Conducting Water Quality Monitoring in Northern Canada (EMAN- North) 

Source Water Protection

• NWT Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP) Guidance Document
• NWT Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP) Guidance Document- Workbook
• Calendar 2013- NWT Source Water Protection Planning
• Sambaa K’e Source Water Protection Plan

Drinking Water

• Calendar 2015 - Managing Drinking Water

Transboundary

• Preliminary State of Groundwater Knowledge in the Transboundary Region of the Mackenzie River Basin, NWT (March 2016)
• Working Together to Manage Our Shared Waters: Alberta-Northwest Territories Bilateral Management Committee Annual Report to Ministers (November 2017)

Other Publications Related to Water Stewardship

• Water and Suspended Sediment Quality of the Transboundary Reach of the Slave River, Northwest Territories (2012)
• Report Summary: Slave River- Water and Suspended Sediment Quality in the Transboundary Reach of the Slave River, Northwest Territories (2012)
• Water Today – Water Quality and Quantity in the NWT (Spring 2010)
• Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Action Plan - 2016-2020: Plain Language Summary (2016)
• Calendar 2017-2018 - NWT Youth Water Stewardship Opportunities (2017-2018)
• Status and Trends of Water Chemistry and Flow of Tributaries into Great Slave Lake (2017)

Additional material will posted here as they are finalized.