Section Review

Now that you have finished this section on Water, you should be comfortable:

• Identifying some of the main pieces of legislation governing water resources in the province
• Understanding the context and history of current water law in Alberta
• Describing the Alberta Wetland Policy
• Understanding the water licensing system
• Debating how to assign new water licences
• Identifying the Water for Life principles and evaluating how they may play a role in water management

Go back and review any of these topics before you move on to the next section on Toxins and Waste

 

 

 

Water Law

• An Introduction to Water Law
• Water Law
• What laws exist to manage and protect our water?
• Where did these laws come from? – A brief history of water law in Alberta
• Wetlands
• Water Licences
• Water for Life Principles, the Alberta Water Council and what we can do to improve…
• Section Review

Lesson Plan: Fundamentals of Environmental Law

Lesson Plan: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Lesson Plan: Tragedy of the Commons

Lesson Plan: Climate Litigation

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