Cumulative effects in a multi-use watershed

雀巢沃茨加拿大公司在安大略的普斯林奇经营一家饮料装瓶厂，从米尔克里克流域抽取地下水。尽管预计这一活动对河流生态系统的影响可以忽略不计，但人们希望积极建立生物监测，以检测生态变化，从而确保环境保护和可持续性。这项参与赠款将为确定知识差距和在小流域（米尔克里克）建立有效的生物监测计划奠定基础，该流域受到许多不同人类活动的影响，包括地下水提取，骨料提取和集约化土地利用。它将使包括雀巢沃茨加拿大公司在内的主要水用户和管理者能够更好地分享和解释生物监测数据，将其置于流域规模的累积效应背景下。这一初步项目将支持在一个共同框架内整合来自不同来源的历史和当前生物监测数据，为今后建立更有效的区域生物监测方案奠定基础。

Nestlé Waters Canada operates a beverage bottling plant in Puslinch, Ontario, that extracts groundwater fromthe Mill Creek watershed. Despite the expectation that there will be negligible effects of this activity on thestream ecosystems, there is a desire to proactively establish biomonitoring that will allow the detection ofecological change so that environmental protection and sustainability is ensured. This Engage Grant will createthe foundation for identifying knowledge gaps and establishing an effective biomonitoring program in a smallwatershed (Mill Creek) that is under the influence of many different human activities, including groundwaterextraction, aggregate extraction, and intensive land use. It will allow the key water users and managers,including Nestlé Waters Canada, to better share and interpret biomonitoring data by placing it in the context ofcumulative effects at the watershed scale. This initial project will support the integration of historical andcurrent biomonitoring data from different sources within a common framework to form the basis forestablishing a more effective Regional Biomonitoring Program in the future.