Guidance Documents & Resources
Access a selection of British Columbia documents that provide communities and land use professionals with guidance for implementing watershed-based planning, rainwater management, green infrastructure, and water sustainability.
- Catalyst for action to establish performance targets for watershed protection and restorationView
- Provides a broad-brush picture of what is in the Guidebook; written for expert and non-expert audiencesView
- Initiated paradigm-shift for defining water sustainability as an outcome of green infrastructure policies and practices View
- Established expectations and targets that will influence the form and function of the built environmentView
- Provides guidance for aligning local actions with provincial and regional goals to ‘design with nature’View
- Synthesizes guiding principles for an integrated and watershed-based approach to rainwater managementView
- Provides an understanding of how a science-based approach has evolved since the mid-1990sView
- Provides guidance in three areas: setting performance targets, defining levels-of-service, and application of screening / scenario toolsView
- Supports implementation of Living Water Smart principles in the local government settingView
- Stewardship can benefit the community, the property owner and the developer, as well as the natural environmentView
- Many of the ideas in this Guide are eligible for funding through provincial government programsView
- Offers suggestions for making municipal infrastructure more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainableView
- Goal: encourage province-wide implementation of fully integrated water sustainability policies, plans and programsView
- Shares tools and collective wisdom gained as a result of implementation experiencesView
- Analysis and practical guidance regarding how local governments may use available legal toolsView
- 19 recommendations are reflected in the strategies and actions that constitute the regulatory documentView
- Provides framework for moving beyond regulatory compliance to achieve the Sustainable Region VisionView
- Documents how ‘green’ rainwater management has been adopted across North AmericaView
- 16 recommendations from 2010 Kelowna Workshop are organized under five categoriesView
- Helps local governments protect quality and quantity of groundwater within their geographic and legislative jurisdictionsView
- Provides an understanding of how local governments and developers can safeguard the environment
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- Presents basic principles of topsoil science and management, and provides sample policy and bylaw languageView
- Provides how-to guidance for design, installation and maintenance of residential rainwater harvesting systemsView
- Focuses on ways to implement climate change adaptation strategiesView
- Provides how-to guidance for rainfall capture and re-useView
