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WPS FreshWater Catalogue (FWC) Project Update �

Poster ca. WPS AGM SSIFWC “Launch”

Earth Day 04/2018

“7500” Live Webmap -�05/2023

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SSI “hotspot 641” �Pacific Datastream website

05/2023

- FIVE YEARS IN -

FWC - Opening Doors, 1 + 1= 3 ?

    • Furthering FN engagements & awareness (their stewardship best practices)
    • Working stewardship groups collaboration (SLS, TSS, RainCoast, GINP)
    • Increased public visibility WPS and increasing community “freshwater stewardship” buy-in
    • Increased (some) province-level agency awareness, support(?) and… data usage(?)

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WPS FreshWater Catalogue (FWC), Project Updates�WPS tenant - Science

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    • 7,350 freshwater field freshwater quantity oriented datapoints
    • 40+ regular, “baseline” sites [35,000 attributes]
    • Targeted watersheds - “local detail” projects, collaboration and periodic additional field data collection

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    • Ca 18 wells
    • Chemistry well-to-creek freshwater to groundwater calibration (adopting an Allen 2020 recommendation)

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    • Accessible & Used FWC data shares
    • On request and “live” – CRD project, SSIFWC webmap, Pacific DataStream

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WPS FreshWater Catalogue (FWC), Project Updates�WPS tenant – Outreach & Education

    • WPS, FWC Collaboration
    • Xqwaqw’um watersheds, with Stqeeye’ Learning Society (SLS)
    • Maxwell watershed, with Transition Salt Spring (TSS)
    • Fulford Bay (7) watersheds, with Gulf Islands National Parks (GINP), Raincoast Foundation and TSS-Marine

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    • Island event participation:
    • Fall Fair, Nature Salt Spring (Xwaaqw’um), Pathfinders, Earth Day, Schools

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    • Canada media presence :
    • BC Water Sustainability, Water Bucket, Living Lakes Canada (in-press)

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    • Film-making fund-raising ongoing
    • Shaped By Water (watershed stewardship & collaboration) in-planning - NEED $$,$$$$

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WPS FreshWater Catalogue (FWC), Project Updates�WPS tenant – Informing Planning

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    • FWC data utilised in “Weston Lake Water Budget” CRD study

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    • Fulford Bay Stewardship Water Quality Pilot (FBSWQP) freshwater-marine project
    • A collaboration between WPS, GINP, Raincoast, TSS-M
    • In-field WPS FreshWater Catalogue overview & FBSWQP work scoping (GINP, Raincoast, TSS-M, FN)
    • FBSWQP field work (x3) completed
    • FBSWQP report writing ongoing, and information dissemination in planning

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    • Pursuing FWC data use in SSI Island Trust watershed studies (AKA “ground-truthing”)

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WPS Film-Making �Education-Outreach Project update

Freshwater Salt Spring film-short

  • Successful uptake (outreach/education
    • To-date ca. 1,500 viewings online
    • SSI Film Festival presence

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Shaped By Water – film-making project

  • Film Objectives
    • Expand outreach on freshwater science and stewardship work
    • Attract more community involvement and (non-choir) buy-in
    • Further share key messaging about “island” freshwater (Salish Sea, and beyond)

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  • In-place
    • Film script outline developed/shared, partial script (storyboard)
    • Film-making costing 75,000$ – 90,000$ (Freshwater Salt Spring – donation 5,000$ “at cost”)
    • Fund-raising (film-making) Shaped By Water website
    • Film-making partners: SLS, IT(SSI), TSS, SSI Conservancy

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    • 2023 ongoing
    • Pursuing a single investor to support our Shaped By Water film-making

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- - - - - - - - - FUNDS DRIVEN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

PARTNERS (Y)�&

FUND RAISING

Research ( Y )

Scripting & story boarding (Y )

Locations selections (Y )

Sound

Interviews

Shoots & Editing�Animations

Illustrations

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Film-making

SHAPED

BY

WATER!

Salt Spring Island Collaborative Watersheds Stewardship, �- Shaped By Water, a film-makers funnel -

“pilot” Freshwater Saltspring WPS, film short online – ca. 1500 hits to- date

----- WE ARE HERE --- - -

A FILM:

Shaped By Water�

  • The film-makers?
  • What is stewardship?
  • What is our SSI freshwater?
  • SSI stewardship, today?
  • How can you help?

ISLAND FRESHWATER:�What Makes A Watershed Tick?

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  • Mature & connected forests
  • Year-round creeks
  • Biodiverse wetlands
  • Groundwater recharge �(and creek baseflow)
  • Healthy prx marine systems

MAINTAINING BALANCE�The Value(s)

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  • Watersheds & natural (eco)systems support island freshwater (quantity & quality)  
  • Land protection is a cornerstone to freshwater sustainability