Understanding Water Budgets and Water Availability in Nova Scotia Watersheds

了解新斯科舍省流域的水预算和水可用性

• 批准号: 556378-2020
• 负责人: Jamieson, Rob
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=706315
• 关键词: Understanding; Water; Budgets; Availability; Nova

This NSERC Alliance Project is a partnership between Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Environment, and is focused on developing a better understanding of surface water resources in Nova Scotia, Canada. Nova Scotia Environment is identified through the Environment Act as the lead agency of Government to promote sustainable management of water resources in the Province, and regulates activities that require approvals (e.g., water withdrawals, watercourse alterations) through administration of the Activities Designation Regulations. The development of evidence-based polices and regulations is a key goal for the department; in the area of water resources management, accurate estimates of water availability within watersheds throughout the province is a key resource to support that goal. The objectives of this research project are to: (i) develop water budgets and water availability risk metrics for all major watersheds in Nova Scotia, and (ii) develop and validate tools for estimating water budget components in ungauged watersheds. The project will utilize a suite of approaches to accomplish these objectives, including calibration and validation of process-based hydrologic simulation models and field based approaches to measure component hydrologic processes (e.g., evapotranspiration, surface runoff and groundwater flow). The results from this research will provide provincial water managers with valuable information to be used to more effectively support the assessment and development of improved water management polices in Nova Scotia, and will be disseminated in a variety of formats to water resources professionals across Canada.

NSERC联盟项目是达尔豪西大学和新斯科舍环境公司的合作伙伴关系， 并致力于更好地了解加拿大新斯科舍省的地表水资源。诺瓦 Scotia Environment通过环境法被确定为政府促进 该省水资源的可持续管理，并管理需要批准的活动(例如， 取水、水道改建)通过活动指定条例的管理。 制定循证政策和条例是该部的一个主要目标；在 水资源管理，准确估计整个流域的水资源可获得性 该省是支持这一目标的关键资源。 这一研究项目的目标是：(1)制定水资源预算和水资源可获得性风险衡量标准 新斯科舍省的所有主要流域，以及(Ii)开发和验证估算水收支的工具 未经测量的流域中的组件。该项目将利用一套方法来实现这些 目标，包括校准和验证基于流程的水文模拟模型和基于实地的 测量组成部分水文过程的方法(例如，蒸散、地表径流和 地下水流量)。这项研究的结果将为省级水管理人员提供有价值的 将用于更有效地支持改善水的评估和发展的信息 新斯科舍省的管理政策，并将以各种形式传播给水资源 加拿大各地的专业人士。