Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy: Departmental Website Component of the 2012-2013 Report on Plans and Priorities


Description of Environment Canada’s Activities Supporting FSDS Themes I, II and III

 

Theme II: Maintaining Water Quality Availability

Goal 3: Water Quality.
Target 3.6: Fresh Water Quality – Achieve a value between 81–100 on each of the Water Quality and Soil Quality Agri-Environmental Performance Indices by March 31, 2030.
 
FSDS Implementation StrategiesFurther Details on this Implementation StrategyAlignment to the 2012-2013 Program Activity Architecture (PAA)
3.6.6
Identify opportunities to work within the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) to develop nutrient management approaches from non-point agricultural sources. (EC)

By 2012 an assessment of the opportunities to exchange policy ideas and to develop options for collaboration will be completed and considered by the CCME Water Agenda Development Committee (WADC). Based on the outcomes of this scoping exercise, further collaborative work on nutrients may be undertaken. Intergovernmental collaboration contributes to developing a harmonized approach to manage agricultural nutrients and improve the water quality agri-environmental performance index.

Performance expectations:

  • By 2012 the assessment will be completed and the CCME WADC will recommend future intergovernmental collaboration opportunities to the Environmental Planning and Protection Committee.
Program Activity 1.2: Water Resources