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Financing Watershed Security: Moving from Funding Projects to Investing in Healthy Watersheds Healthy watersheds are essential infrastructure. They provide safe drinking water, help communities withstand floods and droughts, sustain biodiversity and agriculture, and underpin our wellbeing. Yet the organizations doing the long-term work of watershed stewardship often face a short-term funding reality: competitive grants and […]

A Legacy of Inclusive Growth When Rebekah joined Our Living Waters (OLW) in the fall of 2021, she felt an immediate sense of alignment. “It was as if the job posting had been written for me,” she recalls. The newly created position offered the perfect intersection of her passions for water protection, knowledge mobilization, languages,

My colleague Natalija Vojno and I had the pleasure of interviewing Kennedy Halvorson, Conservation Specialist at Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA), and Colin Smith, Community Coordinator with Land Lovers Network, for this story. Kennedy began chairing Knowledge Sharing meetings for the Alberta Environmental Network Water Working Group when she took on the water file at AWA

Evolution In late 2024, a group of nonprofit organizations working on water priorities in Alberta approached Alberta Ecotrust Foundation with a hope-filled request: for Alberta Ecotrust to convene and lead a province-wide Alberta Water Coalition.* The founding advisory committee members – Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS Canada), the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the