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    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “If we apply EAP to land owned by the RDN to help prove that Natural Asset Management is meaningful, and the Regional Board accepts it, then I see that as the trigger to influence other people who also have land to behave in a similar fashion,” stated Murray Walters, Manager of Water Services with the Regional District of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island


    “The Regional District of Nanaimo had an early interest in EAP. We selected French Creek as its first project under the EAP Partnership umbrella because it will feed into the needs analysis for the ongoing provincially community issues study in the French Creek electoral area. EAP is especially relevant to a drainage and riparian corridor protection strategy. French Creek has multiple, notable characteristics, one of which is that it is a large creekshed. And so it was decided quite early on that it should be a two-year study rather than one year,” stated Murray Walters.

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    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “The 3-year transition strategy for embedding the Ecological Accounting Process at Vancouver Island University has multiple layers and partnerships and there are many moving parts to keep in balance,” stated Anna Lawrence, Program Coordinator for the EAP Transition Strategy Partnership


    ‘”The Departure Creek project in the City of Nanaimo was an exciting analysis because we gained insight into social perceptions of the worth of the creek. This was an add-on layer to the EAP technical analysis. We were fortunate that Departure Creek has a strong stewardship group,” stated Anna Lawrence “During this 3-year transition strategy, we are really delving into how can EAP be used, and why and how it is useful. Now that I am immersed in it, I like the fact that each creek has a different angle that you can work with…each with a different context, different people, different story.”

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    TURNING THE TIDE FOR STREAM SURVIVAL: “The Partnership for Water Sustainability created the methodology for EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process. Now we are in a 3-year transition strategy to embed EAP at Vancouver Island University,” stated Anna Lawrence, Project Coordinator, Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute at VIU


    “There are lots of layers to this partnership and projects. Not only is there a transition strategy, but there are also the partnerships with the local governments plus integrating other grad students, There are so many different parts to EAP. And with each part you can go down a distinct pathway that helps local governments. And that is what Sam Gerrand has done in such a holistic way with his master’s thesis which moves EAP from a stream-by-stream approach to a regional scale,” stated Anna Lawrence.

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    LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “A measure of the consequence of human settlement is the Riparian Deficit. It is the natural systems equivalent of the well-known Infrastructure Deficit for engineered systems,” stated Tim Pringle, Chair of the Ecological Accounting Process initiative


    “The Riparian Deficit applies to the regulated setback which is the interface between land and a stream,” stated Tim Pringle. “EAP is a land use perspective. EAP provides local governments with the real numbers they need to deliver outcomes: What is the number for the line item in a local government annual budget for community investment in maintenance and management, that is M&M, of streams? Streams need a place to be. If we cannot get our heads around that, we are not going to keep our streams. When something does not get measured, it does not get managed,” stated Tim Pringle

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