Transboundary Water Governance
Municipal Water Governance
Water and Development
Water in Canada
Water Security
Program on Water Governance

Transboundary Water Governance

Norman, Emma S. and Bakker, Karen, 2009. "Transgressing Scales: Transboundary Water Governance across the Canada – U.S. Border." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99 (1): 99 – 117.

Norman, Emma S. and K. Bakker. Forthcoming 2009. “Governing Water across the Canada-U.S. Borderland” in Borders and Bridges: Navigating Canada’s International Policy Relations in a North America Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, editors Geoffrey Hale and Monica Gattinger.

Norman, Emma. Forthcoming 2009. “Nature Knows No Borders…..But the Mangers Certainly do: Transboundary Water Governance Post-9/11.” In The Governance of Borderland Regions in an Era of Security, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, editors Emmanuel Brunet Jailly and Don Alper.

Carr, David and Emma S. Norman. 2008. "Global Civil Society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development." Geoforum 39(1): 358-71.

Norman, Emma S. and Jean O. Melious. 2008. “Hidden Waters: Transboundary Environmental Management across the 49th Parallel.” in Border Bio-Regions and Coastal Corridors: Transnational Policy Challenges in Western North America. University of Calgary Press. Editors Don Alper, Chad Day, and James Loucky.

Norman, Emma. "Local Stakeholders Governing Water across the 49th Parallel." Bellingham, WA: Border Policy Research Institute: Western Washington University, 2007. 1-4. Vol. 2.

Norman, E. and Bakker, K. 2005. “Drivers and Barriers of Cooperation in Transboundary Water Governance: A Case Study of Western Canada and the United States.” Report to The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

Norman, Emma and Karen Bakker. Oct. 2004 Transboundary Groundwater Governance: An Annotated Bibliography.

Norman, Emma Spenner and Jean O. Melious. 2004. "Transboundary Environmental Management: A Study of the Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer in Western Washington and Southern British Columbia". Journal of Borderland Studies. Vol. 19(2): 101- 119.

Municipal Water Governance

Furlong, K. & K. Bakker (2008). Achieving Water Conservation: Strategies for Good Governance (Policy Report). Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance & Infrastructure Canada. This document is the second policy report to result from the project and follows from the Canada-wide research phase of the project.
Version française: Réaliser la conservation de l’eau: Stratégies pour une bonne gouvernance.

Furlong, K., C. Cook & K. Bakker (2008). Good Governance for Water Conservation: A Primer. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance & Infrastructure Canada. This primer present a ready guide to the policy consideration stemming from the project research.
Version française: Bonne gouvernance pour la conservation de l’eau: Guide d’introduction.

Cook, C. & K. Furlong (2008). Good Governance for Municipal Water Conservation: An Annotated Bibliography. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance & Infrastructure Canada. This annotated bibliography present a ready guide to key research in the area of municipal water conservation policy and practice.

Gardner, J. & Furlong, K. (2008). Workshop Report: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management in Canada Workshop held May 5th, 2008 at the Peter Wall Institute, UBC. Vancouver, BC: Program on Water Governance and Infrastructure Canada.

Furlong, K. & K. Bakker (2007). Water Governance in Transition: Utility restructuring and demand management in Ontario (Policy Report). Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance & Infrastructure Canada. This document is the first policy report to result from the project and follows from the Ontario pilot phase of the project.

Furlong, K. (2007). Report on the Water Governance in Transition: Utility Restructuring and Demand Management in Ontario Workshop held April 13, 2007 at the Peter Wall Institute, UBC. Vancouver, BC: Program on Water Governance and Infrastructure Canada, 2007.

Water Sector Restructuring in Ontario Expert Questionnaire - Preliminary Report

Furlong, Kathryn, and Karen Bakker. Municipal Water Supply Governance in Canada: Uptake of Water Conservation Technologies in the Context of Utility Restructuring. Poster and Presentation presented at the Infrastructure Canada Research to Action Workshop, Ottawa , ON, November 29 - December 1, 2006.

Hill, Carey, Kathryn Furlong, Karen Bakker, and Alice Cohen. Emerging issues in Water Governance and Legislation in the Canadian Provinces and Territories. Paper presented at the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, June 4-7, 2006.

Furlong, Kathryn. Sociotechnical Aspects of Utility Restructuring: Municipal Water Services in Ontario, Canada. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 7-11, 2006.

Bakker, K. and D. Cameron (2005) 'Changing patterns of water governance: Liberalization and de-regulation in Ontario, Canada' Water Policy 7(5)

Furlong, K (2005) 'Water Sector Restructuring in Ontario: Expert Questionnaire Report'. Unpublished Preliminary Report, Vancouver.

Water and Development

Bakker, K., Michelle Kooy, Nur Endah Shofiani, and Ernst-Jan Martijn (2006). Disconnected: Poverty, Water Supply and Development in Jakarta, Indonesia. Background paper for the UNDP Human Development Report.

Water in Canada

Cohen, A. (2009) "The Sixth Great Lake: Groundwater in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Basin", a report done through the Walter and Duncan Gordan Water Policy Fellowship program.

This report provides a ‘snapshot’ of the current state of groundwater management in the Ontario portion of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Basin (‘the basin’). It serves as a primer on groundwater in the basin, an introduction to legislative frameworks in the basin, and offers recommendations for future action.

Water is of growing concern to Canadians. Water pollution incidents such as Walkerton have alerted Canadians to water safety issues. Ongoing attempts to export water generate heated debate. The increasing involvement of private companies in water supply has divided communities. The state of water governance in Canada has been characterized as “shocking” and “unacceptable” in a recent report by Canada’s Senate.

The Program on Water Governance is examining these and other issues.

Some of this research is being brought together in
an edited book, Eau Canada, to be published by UBC Press in the fall of 2006. This book brings together 28 of Canada’s top water experts to debate Canada’s most critical water issues, and to map out solutions.

Linda Nowlan and Karen Bakker, November 2007. Delegating Water Governance: Issues and Challenges in the BC Context.

This report on evolving approaches to water governance in Canada, focusing on BC, was commissioned by the BC Water Governance Project, a partnership of the Fraser Basin Council, BC Ministry of Environment, Fraser Salmon and Watershed Program, Georgia Basin Living Rivers Program and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

The paper is intended to provide useful information and tools for government and other stakeholders participating in the ongoing dialogue on water governance in the province of British Columbia. It presents an independent, academic analysis of select water governance issues, focusing on ‘delegated’ (also known as ‘devolved’ or ‘shared’ or ‘distributed’) water governance. The analysis is based on research conducted by the University of British Columbia’s Program on Water Governance in the latter half of 2007. It will be published in the public domain, as mandated by UBC’s Ethics Review Board.

Water Security

Cook, Christina and Karen Bakker (2010). Water Security: Emerging debates in policy and academia. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance.

Dunn, Gemma and Karen Bakker (2010). Fresh water-related Indicators in Canada: An inventory and analysis. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance.

Dunn, Gemma and Karen Bakker (2009). Canadian Approaches to Assessing Water Security: an Inventory of Indicators. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance.

This policy report, the first in a series, documents and assesses the strength of the indicators currently used in Canada to measure and assess water security, with a focus on both federal and provincial levels.

Program on Water Governance

Linda Nowlan (2008). Smarter Water Laws - the Key to Living Water Smart, BC's New Water Plan.

Program on Water Governance Annual Report for 2008.