Tag: environmental flow
Forgotten Giants of the Nechako River
Guest Blogger October 9, 2013
An artificial flow pattern has been created in the Nechako that is designed mainly to accommodate sockeye salmon as they travel up the Nechako before turning into the Stuart River to spawn. No consideration has been given to the Nechako white sturgeon or to the health of the Nechako River ecosystem as a whole.
SPOTLIGHT on the Athabasca: a key part of protecting the water a river needs
Mathieu Lebel September 20, 2013
Determining how much water a river needs is a challenge people are wrestling with around the world, but some key principles have emerged from the scientific community. Among them is the need for protection during critical low flow periods, a primary concern for Alberta’s lower Athabasca River.
SPOTLIGHT on the Athabasca: supporting one million birds and 31 species of fish
WWF September 5, 2013
The lower Athabasca River and the Peace-Athabasca Delta are some of the world’s greatest living waters
B.C.’s Lakes and Rivers – It’s time to protect them!
Jo Anne Walton May 23, 2013
A poll commissioned by WWF-Canada and the Vancouver Foundation just over two years ago, shows a resounding 94 per cent of British Columbians polled want the protection of nature, wildlife and species made a top priority in new provincial water laws.
Run, river, run: how dams affect flows
Linda Nowlan November 22, 2011
Dams are one of the most obvious ways we interfere with rivers.