Salt Spring Island Watershed Protection Alliance Priority

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Priority-Setting Special Meeting 
April 2, 2019 
 
 
Report 
Including Special Meeting Minutes 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted to SSIWPA Steering Committee 
April 5, 2019 
 
(Amended final version - October 22, 2019) 
 
 
 
By Facilitator-Coordinator, 
Shannon Cowan, Ph.D. 

	
Table	of	Contents	
				
	
Executive	Summary		
	
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Special	Meeting	Minutes	-	Proceedings	
	
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Table	1:	Priority	Problems	
	
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Table	2:	All	Problems	
	
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Table	3:	Actions	to	Address	Priority	Problems		
	
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Appendix	1:	Recommended	Next	Steps	for	SSIWPA		
	
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Figure	1:	Do-Ability	and	Impact	Ranking	Method	with	examples	
	
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Figure	2:	SSIWPA	Coordination	Work	Plan	Template	
	
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Appendix	2:	Special	Meeting	Agenda	Package		18	-	31	
	
Appendix	3:	Worksheet	#2	for	Prioritization	Activity	
	
	
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 SSIWPA Priority-Setting Special Meeting  
        April 2, 2019 
 
Executive Summary 
 
The Salt Spring Island Watershed Protection Alliance agreed to host a special meeting to 
discover, and to prioritize problems on Salt Spring Island related to water management 
and watershed protection. The meeting was held over 5 hours on April 2, 2019 and the 
intended outcome of the meeting was to generate a list of priority problems including 
key actions, some of which could be coordinated by SSIWPA in the near term (2019-
2020). Sixty-three participants were invited from a wide range of local stakeholder 
organizations, including community water systems, water districts, bulk water providers, 
the agricultural community, and other local non-governmental organizations. Twenty-
five participants attended the special meeting, including SSIWPA Steering Committee 
and Working Group members. 
 
Four agencies from local and provincial government gave brief presentations 
highlighting their roles and responsibilities for water resource management on Salt 
Spring Island, and current water sustainability-related projects. 
 
Those assembled participated in a brainstorming and sorting activity that considered 
existing problems set out by SSIWPA during the Strategic Planning process in 2018, as 
well as identifying new water sustainability-related problems. Each participant voted for 
important and urgent problems, important but not urgent problems and not important 
but urgent problems from among the 30+ problems that were generated by all groups.  
 
Participants identified three top priority problems from the voting process: 1) Water 
availability and use is not known for all watersheds and groundwater neighbourhoods; 
2) There is a need for clear guidelines, promotions and incentives for rainwater 
harvesting systems; and 3) Policies for proof of sufficient water lack clarity, 
harmonization and specifications for alternative sources.   
 
Participants generated 12 possible actions (four per problem) that SSIWPA should 
consider as possible projects for coordination in the short term (2019-2020).  
 
 
 
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