Understanding Water Budgets and Water Availability in Nova Scotia Watersheds

这个NSERC联盟项目是达尔豪西大学和新斯科舍省环境之间的伙伴关系， 并致力于更好地了解加拿大新斯科舍省的地表水资源。Nova 斯科舍环境部通过《环境法》被确定为政府的牵头机构， 该省水资源的可持续管理，并规范需要批准的活动（例如， 取水、水道改建）。 制定以证据为基础的政策和法规是该部的一个关键目标;在以下领域： 水资源管理，准确估计整个流域内的水供应情况， 各省是支持这一目标的关键资源。 该研究项目的目标是：（i）制定水预算和水可用性风险指标， 新斯科舍省的所有主要流域，以及（ii）开发和验证估算水预算的工具 未测量流域中的组件。该项目将利用一套方法来实现这些目标 目标，包括校准和验证基于过程的水文模拟模型和基于现场的 测量组分水文过程的方法（例如，蒸散、地表径流和 地下水流量）。本研究结果将为省级水资源管理者提供有价值的参考 信息将用于更有效地支持评估和发展改善水 管理政策在新斯科舍省，并将以各种形式传播到水资源 加拿大各地的专业人士

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.