State of the Aquatic Ecosystem Report 2003, Highlights (Mackenzie River Basin Board, 2003)
This document presents highlights from the Mackenzie River Basin Board's 2004 State of the Aquatic Ecosystem Report, assessing the environmental health of Canada's largest river basin across six sub-basins. The report concludes that aquatic ecosystems are generally healthy while identifying key concerns including climate change impacts, industrial pollution legacy issues, information gaps, and the need for improved monitoring and bilateral water management agreements.
- Date
- 2004-03-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Mackenzie River Basin Board, Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, Government of Alberta, Government of Saskatchewan, Government of Northwest Territories, Government of Yukon, Aboriginal peoples of Mackenzie River Basin, Suncor Energy, Environment Canada
- Locations
- Mackenzie River Basin, Beaufort Sea, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie River, Columbia Ice-fields, Jasper National Park, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Arctic Ocean, Aklavik, Inuvik, Fort McPherson, Norman Wells, Yellowknife, Fort Simpson, Hay River, Fort Smith, Fort Nelson, Lake Athabasca, Fort Vermilion, Fort Chipewyan, Fort St. John, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Lesser Slave Lake, Whitecourt, Hinton, Watson Lake, Peel River, Slave River, Liard River, Peace River, Athabasca River, Wapiti River, Rat River, Williston Lake Reservoir, Mackenzie Delta, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Slave Delta, Nahanni National Park, South Nahanni River, Cree Lake
- Parameters
- water quality, aquatic ecosystem health, groundwater, stream flow, climate change, temperature trends, precipitation, ice melt, industrial effluent, pulp mill emissions, oil sands tailings, mercury, dioxins, furans, arsenic, uranium contamination, fish stocks, waterfowl abundance, fish consumption advisories, country food safety, biodiversity, habitat, turbidity, organic matter, adsorbable organic halides, suspended sediment, source water protection, water quantity, water withdrawals, algal growth, sediment loads
- Pages
- 8
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