GEORGIA BASIN INTER-REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE: “You can bend the hydrology of a watershed for the better over decades just because of the housing redevelopment cycle. But you get just one chance every 50 years to get it right.” stated Robert Hicks, career engineer-planner in local government in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia
Robert Hicks was the internal champion at Metro Vancouver for creating the Water Balance Methodology and Model for scenario comparison purposes. Such comparisons were transformational in helping decision makers visualize HOW their municipalities could meet watershed targets and mitigate population growth and climate change. “Metro Vancouver had the budget to fund the early work on the Water Balance Methodology and thus bridge the source control information gap. What we learned from the 50-year scenario comparisons became a foundation piece for BC’s Stormwater Planning Guidebook,” stated Robert Hicks.