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The Integrated Fresh Water Management Program (IFWMP) was initiated in 2016 to:
- quantify the renewable volume of freshwater available for human use;
- measure and optimize the efficiency of potable water resource uses/demand;
- where appropriate, adjust bylaws and regulations to limit further densification in areas where water quantity sensitivities exist to sustainable levels.
The Integrated Freshwater Management Program came to a close in 2018 after SSIWPA adopted changes to its Terms of Reference. As a result of aquifer mapping and groundwater budgets on an island scale that were released in 2018, the IFWMP priorities were revisited and SSIWPA refocussed efforts on coordinating actions related to freshwater areas under development pressures and development of alternatives and incentives at a local land use planning scale. SSIWPA will be releasing an Operational Plan to show its priority directions, even though the IFWMP program has come to a close in the format in which it was previously coordinated at SSIWPA.
