Phase 2 of the South Saskatchewan River Basin Water Management Plan will recommend water conservation objectives for the major mainstem reaches of the Red Deer, Bow, Oldman, Waterton, Belly, St....
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Phase 2 of the South Saskatchewan River Basin Water Management Plan will recommend water conservation objectives for the major mainstem reaches of the Red Deer, Bow, Oldman, Waterton, Belly, St. Mary and South Saskatchewan rivers. Because of the complexity and significant consequences that establishing water conservation objectives are expected to have, it was decided to divide modelling of Phase 2 into two parts. Part 1, the subject of this report, is an exploratory and educational exercise that gathers information on the current and "committed to" state of the basin, and the potential consequences of a number of hypothetical water management scenarios. The report documents results obtained from eight scenario simulations using Alberta Environment's Water Resources Management Model.