Water Balance Model for BC

The 2010 Winter Olympics provides an opportunity to demonstrate how British Columbia has moved from talk to action in developing and implementing innovative approaches to stormwater management. British Columbia stormwater criteria and tools are increasingly receiving recognition across North America because of their unique emphasis on solving both flooding and environmental problems at the source, by reducing stormwater runoff volumes. The Water Balance Model for BC demonstrates how to achieve significant progress towards sustainability in a number of categories. While the focus is on integration of land use planning with stormwater management for urban watershed protection, the vision is to facilitate a closed loop approach to management of the urban water cycle.

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