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Funding for Saskatchewan’s Watersheds
Res #: 45-16A
Number: 45
Year: 2016
Midterm: No
Expired: No
Responses Received: No
Departments: Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment
WHEREAS funding for Saskatchewan’s watersheds has not increased since 2011; and
WHEREAS the watershed groups work with the majority of rural municipalities in the province and deliver environmental programs to ratepayers; and
WHEREAS the watersheds use provincial funding to gain access to federal programs and secure federal funding; and
WHEREAS the Government of Manitoba has recently announced an increase of $150,000 per watershed;
BE IT RESOLVED that SARM lobby the Provincial Government to increase funding to the watersheds so they may continue this valuable work and to enable them to be developed as the primary resource for landowners seeking advice regarding the new drainage regulations.