Publications
Videos and Webinars
The Council’s library of videos and webinars is available here.
Consensus Decision Making Toolkit
The CDM Toolkit is one of a number of initiatives to honour the memory of Dr. Martha Kostuch. Dr. Kostuch was a nationally recognized environmental activist who made significant contributions to our understanding and use of the consensus decision-making process and how it can lead to innovative and sustainable solutions.
The CDM Toolkit is an outcome of a made-in-Alberta collaboration of consensus decision-making practitioners. A great reference guide for seasoned practitioners, it will also assist those new to the consensus decision-making process. The toolkit is a combination of checklists and templates to help determine whether or not the consensus decision-making process is the appropriate decision-making model for a particular problem. The same checklists and templates will also guide those already participating in a consensus decision-making process.
The CDM toolkit is available here.
Fact Sheets
As part of the Council’s Communication Strategy 2011-2013, the Council will be developing a series of fact sheets in order to provide our sectors with the necessary tools to facilitate information flows to reach a wider audience within each sector . The intent is to showcase our key learnings from our recently completed projects in the form of fact sheets to be available to our sectors as informational material.
Project Team Reports
- Alberta Wetland Policy Implementation Review
- Alberta Water Futures: Risks and Opportunities for Water Management
- AWC Building Resiliency to Multi-year Drought Guide
- Building Resiliency to Multi-Year Drought in Alberta: Tools for Small Urban and Rural Municipalities
- Protecting Sources of Drinking Water in Alberta: Guide to Source Water Protection Planning
- Protecting Sources of Drinking Water in Alberta: Companion Report
- Looking Back: Evaluating Sector Improvements in Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity
- Recommendations to Improve Lake Watershed Management in Alberta
- Recommendation to Improve Water Literacy in Alberta
- Recommendations to Improve Aquatic Invasive Species Management in Alberta
- Riparian Land Conservation and Management Report and Recommendations
- Sector Planning for Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity
- Recommendations to Improve Non-Point Source Pollution Management in Alberta
- Moving from Words to Actions - Recommendations to improve communication, coordination and collaboration between and among Water for Life partnerships
- Provincial Ecological Criteria for Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems: Recommendations from the Alberta Water Council
- Recommendations for Improving Alberta’s Water Allocation Transfer System
- Recommended Projects to Advance the Goal of Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
- Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems - a Working Definition
- Strengthening Partnerships: A Shared Governance Framework for Water for Life Collaborative Partnerships
- Recommendations for a Watershed Management Framework for Alberta
- Recommendations for Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity Sector Planning
- Intra-basin Water Movement: Major Principles and Recommendations
- Recommendations for a New Wetland Policy*
- Recommendations for an Alberta Wetland Policy Implementation Plan*
- Water for Life: Recommendations for Renewal
- Water Policy Issues and Gaps
- Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity: Principles, Definitions, Performance Measures and Environmental Indicators
- Water Research Strategy
* non-consensus report, please see project’s page
Water for Life Implementation Reviews
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life, 2016-2019
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life, 2012-2015 (Appendices C and D available here)
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life, 2009-2011
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life 2006-2008
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life 2005-2006
- Review of Implementation Progress of Water for Life 2004-2005
Annual Reports
- Annual Report 2023
- Annual Report 2022
- Annual Report 2021
- Annual Report 2020
- Annual Report 2019
- Annual Report 2018
- Annual Report 2017
- Annual Report 2016
- Annual Report 2015
- Annual Report 2014
- Annual Report 2013
- Annual Report 2012
- Annual Report 2011
- Annual Report 2010
- Annual Report 2009
- Annual Report 2008
- Annual Report 2007
- Annual Report 2005/06
- Annual Report 2004/05
Financial Statements
Beginning in 2014, the AWC’s approved financial statements will be posted here separately from the annual reports. Financial statements for years prior to 2014 are found within the annual reports.