Water Policy Fellowships

Sarah Wolfe

Sarah has successfully defended her PhD and is now a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo with Supervisor Dr. Paul Kay.

Her Fellowship project is called Beyond a Pipe Dream: An interactive study on the development of a community water demand management policy and action strategy.

For more information, please visit the project website at www.beyondapipedream.com

Project Update (March 2007)

The project examines whether water efficiency can be more successfully incorporated, and expanded, through an ongoing discussion between practitioners, municipal decision-makers and community. Our interim results focused on the project's response rates and an assessment of the community dynamics, the available social capital and network structure and function.

The project is now in the third phase (Community Outreach, February - April 2007). On March 22nd (World Water Day) we hosted a workshop with the "centres of influence", i.e., the individuals who were identified through the community mapping exercise. The response was encouraging - nine of ten people accepted the invitation - and the conversation was dynamic. A dominant theme was the initial success of existing water efficiency measures (e.g., meters) and the Township's success in meeting government regulations. Topics to be considered further included how demographic and environmental changes might influence the township's planning and how the community might use water efficiency as a starting point to articulate a comprehensive "Blue Legacy". These two issues would be useful for informing the municipality's future planning and decisions. In April, we will extend our outreach campaign to include water efficiency presentations with interested community groups.

The next project phase is will be focused on data analysis and writing. We will consolidate the results in a document be reviewed by both the workshop participants and an external group of water efficiency expert.

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	Water Policy Fellowships Sarah Wolfe Sarah has successfully defended her PhD and is now a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo with Supervisor Dr. Paul Kay. Her Fellowship project is called Beyond a Pipe Dream: An interactive study on the development of a community water demand management policy and action strategy. For more information, please visit the project website at www.beyondapipedream.com Project Update (March 2007) The project examines whether water efficiency can be more successfully incorporated, and expanded, through an ongoing discussion between practitioners, municipal decision-makers and community. Our interim results focused on the project's response rates and an assessment of the community dynamics, the available social capital and network structure and function. The project is now in the third phase (Community Outreach, February - April 2007). On March 22nd (World Water Day) we hosted a workshop with the "centres of influence", i.e., the individuals who were identified through the community mapping exercise. The response was encouraging - nine of ten people accepted the invitation - and the conversation was dynamic. A dominant theme was the initial success of existing water efficiency measures (e.g., meters) and the Township's success in meeting government regulations. Topics to be considered further included how demographic and environmental changes might influence the township's planning and how the community might use water efficiency as a starting point to articulate a comprehensive "Blue Legacy". These two issues would be useful for informing the municipality's future planning and decisions. In April, we will extend our outreach campaign to include water efficiency presentations with interested community groups. The next project phase is will be focused on data analysis and writing. We will consolidate the results in a document be reviewed by both the workshop participants and an external group of water efficiency expert. << Go back
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