Rainwater Management

CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION IN METRO VANCOUVER: “Use of the Water Balance Model can help municipalities to define achievable and affordable performance targets at the watershed, neighbourhood and site scales,” stated Greg Moore, former Metro Vancouver Board Chair

November 26, 2024 - Posted in Chronicle of Green Infrastructure Innovation, Metro Vancouver Region, Success Stories: Rainwater Champions & Innovators

Note to Reader:

In November 2024, the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia released THE SYNOPSIS for the Chronicle of Green Infrastructure Innovation in Metro Vancouver. The Chronicle is a sweeping narrative of the 30-year period from 1994 through 2024. The Chronicle is a layered package comprising four documents: the Chronicle of the Journey, Stories Within the Story, Synopsis and Executive Summary. The target audience for each layer is different.

The Synopsis is the third layer in the cascade. It is oriented to senior managers who have limited time to absorb what they need to know to make informed decisions. The Synopsis is visual and so can easily be skimmed in 20 minutes or less! This extract is from page S26.

Regional commitment to protecting streams

“A series of regional demonstration applications showed how to implement a low-budget, high-value approach to performance. Beginning in 2002, the Partnership and three levels of governments invested several million dollars in the Water Balance Accounting Pillar,” wrote Kim Stephens, Synopsis author and Partnership Executive Director.

“Online and interactive, the Water Balance Express enables municipalities to fulfil these three actions and achieve regulatory compliance: meet pre-set performance targets; reduce rainwater runoff from properties; and infiltrate water into soil.”