LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “The EAP results resonate with local governments when they think about how to improve their asset management of streams. We give them a number to put in their asset management budget,” stated Tim Pringle, Adjunct Faculty with the Master of Community Planning Department at Vancouver Island University
“Urban streams are rarely managed as ecological systems or as municipal assets. Rather, they are sliced and diced to suit land development objectives. And this has consequences. If land use intensity increases to levels that destroy the conditions of the stream, then there will be no stream asset to produce ecological services. Communities need annual budgets to tackle Riparian Deficits along streams. EAP, the Ecological Accounting Process, gives them that number,” stated Tim Pringle.