The Alberta-Northwest Territories bilateral water management agreement commits both governments to co-operatively manage water resources. The agreement focuses on aquatic ecosystems in the Mackenzie River Basin, the longest and largest river system in Canada.
The agreement will help ensure water management plans take an adaptive management approach that determines what actions should be taken and when based on scientific monitoring. It will also respect the jurisdiction of governments and ensure water is collaboratively managed for the benefit of the environment, people and the economy.
Alberta – Northwest Territories BWMA Reports
Below are the most recent reports associated with this agreement. If you’re looking for all the existing reports associated with the AB-NT Bilateral Water Management Agreement, you can find them archived here.
- Working Together To Manage Our Shared Waters 2020-21
- Alberta-NWT Transboundary Water Quality Technical Report
- Alberta-NWT Transboundary Water Quantity Technical Report
- Updated Bedrock Topography and Sediment Thickness Models to Support Aquifer Mapping in the Alberta-Northwest Territories Transboundary Region
- Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Plan for Large Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Northwest Territories Region: Assessment of Results from the Fifth Year of Sampling (2021)
- Working Together to Manage Our Shared Waters (2018-2020)
- Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Plan for Large Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Northwest Territories Region: Assessment of Results from the Fourth Year of Sampling (2020)
- Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Plan for Large Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Northwest Territories Region: Assessment of Results from the Third Year of Sampling (2019)