DEMAND MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND
IMPLEMENTATION
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Donna Caddie is the Living Water Smart Project Manager at the BC Ministry of Environment. She has experience in local government liaison, stakeholder consultation, strategic planning and water management as well as public communications. She's passionate about water and is very pleased to be helping British Columbians Live Water Smart. About Her Presentation We can all live water smart. Released in 2008, Living Water Smart is the British Columbia Government’s vision and plan to keep water healthy and secure for the future. The plan aims to encourage land and water managers and users to protect stream health, be efficient water users and adapt to climate change. This presentation will outline some of the targets and commitments in Living Water Smart with a specific focus on encouraging water efficient behaviour and community development practices. *Note: due to unforseen circumstances, Donna Caddie will not be available to present at this workshop. Lisa Wright will be making the presentation in Donna's place.
Elizabeth Hendriks is the Outreach Coordinator for the POLIS Project on Ecological Goverance Water Sustainability Project at the University of Victoria. About Her Presentation Setting targets is an important and often over looked part of water conservation planning. It requires good data and a firm understanding of where water is being used in a system. Using the POLIS WaterSmart Scenario Builder (Scenario Builder) participants will focus on how to set target for various water uses such as outdoor water use, indoor use, ICI targets ect. The WaterSmart Scenario Builder is a spreadsheet-based calculator that allows users to explore the potential for water and greenhouse gas emissions savings through the application of water efficiency and conservation measures. The Scenario Builder is designed to develop and test various future water scenarios using a backcasting framework. About the Water Conservation Planning Guidebook This seven step "how to" guidebook for British Columbian communities enhances local government capacity to develop and implement effective water conservation plans by summarizing core research on water-wise tools and practices in an easy to use step-by-step guidebook. The guidebook helps municipal water staff and active citizens get started on water conservation planning, and communities who are looking to strengthen existing water conservation plans.
Lisa Wright works with the Local Government Infrastructure and Finance Branch, BC Ministry of Community and Rural Development. As an Infrastructure Resource Officer, she reviews and evaluates grant applications based on integrated planning evaluations that support sustainable infrastructure and BC’s Living Water Smart. She has training in land use planning, human geography, and water conservation. About Her Presentation The Water Conservation Calculator is a decision support tool to assist local governments in developing and implementing comprehensive water conservation plans. This web-based tool can help local governments compare and contrast both the fiscal and physical savings of numerous water conservation measures. The Water Conservation Calculator is designed for small to mid-size communities who often cannot allocate resources to traditional infrastructure projects or who cannot budget for the development of professional water conservation plans. It is intended to be easy to use, and will allow for a better understanding of the existing system and conservation options. This presentation will demonstrate how the Water Conservation Calculator works and highlight its key functions. The key pieces of functionality that the Water Conservation Calculator provides include:
Tjaart Van den Berg is the President of Landinfo Technologies Inc. and has more than 20 years experience in the implementation and integration of municipal information systems. During the last 5 years, he worked closely with various local authorities and water utilities on the development and implementation of web based water demand side management systems in British Columbia. About His Presentation The Aquasoft Residential Water Demand (RWD) Calculator is a web-based water demand calculator for residential water use. Indoor and outdoor water demand is calculated for individual households based on unique parameters, such as size of garden, number of showers etc . The tool also provides the functionality to integrate and compare existing water consumption based on actual water meter readings with the water demand as calculated by the Aquasoft calculator.
Richard Boase, P.Geo., CCEP a UBC Geologist and BC Registered Professional Geoscientist has over 20 years of environmental earth science experience. As an integrated and natural resource manager he is a specialist in urban watersheds. He has been doing environmental geology for over 15 years with the District of North Vancouver. Mr. Boase’s multi-disciplinary experience includes land development and environmental impact assessment, watershed management and contaminated sites. He is currently Co-Chair of the Inter-Governmental Partnership and sits on the Water Balance Model focus group.
About His Presentation Richard will be speaking about the Water Balance Model. More information will be posted shortly.
Ted van der Gulik graduated in 1977 from Bio-Resource Engineering at the University of British Columbia, specialising in water management. In 1979 he took on the position of provincial irrigation specialist for the Resource Management Branch, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Since 1988, as Senior Engineer, he has also been a part of the management team of the Ministry’s Resource Management Branch, and is manager of engineering staff responsible for Farm Structures, Waste Management, Mechanization and Water Management. Mr. Van der Gulik has authored many papers for ASAE, CSAE, AWWA and BCWWA conferences. He has also written irrigation design manuals on sprinkler and trickle irrigation design and management, chemigation and frost protection. In 2000 he was awarded the Crawford Reid Memorial Award by the International Irrigation Association. The recipient of this award is recognized internationally for promoting irrigation techniques and fostering major advances in the irrigation industry. Ted and his wife Karen have been married for thirty two years, have four children and two grandchildren.
About His Presentation The Irrigation Scheduling Calculator is an online tool that can develop an irrigation schedule using real time climate data and crop, soil and irrigation information from the site that is input by the user. The calculator determines the run time of the irrigation system or the time frame for the next irrigation. It can be used for all irrigation system types on all different type of crops.
The Okanagan Irrigation Management Program allows actual metered water use information to be compared to water demand calculated for a property using the Agriculture Water Demand Model. The water demand model calculates water demand using crop, soil, irrigation system and climate information. Producers can access their own information through an internet site using a secured password. The tool allows producers to track water consumption and allows water purveyors to provide up to date water management information to their users.
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For more information, contact: Winnie Tsang 604-433-4389 ext. 232
January 26, 2010
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