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Welcome to the Okanagan Basin Water Board
Clean water is the most precious natural asset in the Okanagan – essential to the beauty of our landscapes, our healthy economy and the well-being of our citizens. The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) was instituted in 1970 through a collaboration of the three Okanagan regional districts to provide leadership on water issues that span the entire valley – recognizing the need to work together to protect our common resources.
For many years, the OBWB directed its efforts toward the most urgent recommendations of the 1974 Okanagan Basin Study– reducing phosphorus and nitrogen inputs to the main valley lakes and controlling the invasive aquatic plant, Eurasian watermilfoil. In 2006, in response to rising public interest in water sustainability and with the support of the regional districts, the OBWB put into action a water management initiative to promote coordinated water management throughout the basin.
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Major Okanagan water study wins award
The Okanagan Basin Water Board and 13 of its partners have been presented with the "Award for Excellence in the Water and Waste Community" by the BC Water and Waste Association (BCWWA). The award was presented in recognition of the partnership’s work on the three-year extensive Okanagan Water Supply and Demand Study.
For the full news release, click here.
Visit the Okanagan Water Supply and Demand project website at www.obwb.ca/wsd
OBWB announces Water Conservation & Quality Improvement Grant recipients for 2012
The Okanagan Basin Water Board has approved $339,154 in grant funding to projects that will conserve and protect the water of the Okanagan.
“The water in this valley is all connected,” noted OBWB Executive Director Anna Warwick Sears. “This grant program is a way to bring residents of the Okanagan together to take on projects that improve water in their own backyards, but which also have valley-wide benefit. We have One Valley. One Water.” Since the program began awarding funds in 2006, some $2.1 million has been awarded.
For the full news release and a list of grant recipients, click here.
Slow it. Spread it. Sink it!
The Slow it. Spread it. Sink it! An Okanagan Homeowner’s Guide to Using Rain as a Resource is an easy-to-use guidebook, showing local residents how they can easily capture and re-use the water that falls on their property.
The guide is one of the outcomes of the OBWB’s successful Fall 2010 Rain to Resource workshop.
You can find the Slow it. Spread it. Sink it! (7MB PDF) here.