Environment committee  We have sites at which we take different types of measurements including gauging.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  It's fairly stable. The way it works is that we have some stations at which we take measurements specifically for our own use, so they're designated federal stations. We do some at the request of the provinces or the territories. Then there are some that we're both interested in,

Environment committee  It would depend on the sites. We have been operating in Canada since 1908. Some sites have very long-term data collection and some have less. In particular, I would say that at the sites for transboundary waters, we have long-term data collection.

Environment committee  Absolutely. This snapshot is just one product we were asked to develop so that the general population could actually analyze or see the results. The idea of a normal is so you can compare it to weather normals. It's warmer or colder than the normal. This information was meant to

Environment committee  The suggestion is that the amount of water we have in B.C. is tending to be a little bit higher. In the prairies, it is tending to be a bit lower, and in Ontario and Quebec, which are the other two provinces I have information on, the trends are not conclusive. But again, there a

Environment committee  The Canadian sustainability indicators are actually fairly new. I should go back and say that the bulk of our work is really to support a number of things. I've talked about the engineering portion. Understanding the water flows will influence the constructions that you put in th

Environment committee  The data on this bar graph are from 2011.

Environment committee  I think for the most part the general trend is that we're looking at normals. Again, if we go to 2011, I guess I would have to come back to you for that specific year, and I don't have the data for last year to see if that actually was maintained. This was a new tool that we wer

Environment committee  I'll just explain a little bit about how these normals were looked at. To be able to look at the trends.... We were talking earlier about the Great Lakes and how, yes, you actually need to look over a few decades. These are over 30 years. What we've wanted to do with these is t

Environment committee  We work with the World Meteorological Organization to establish international standards. As for steps related to water levels and things like that, we work with our American colleagues, and we use similar approaches. We also sit on our federal-provincial-territorial committee to

Environment committee  Let me add, maybe simply to illustrate, that the act was passed in 1970, and in 1975 we signed agreements with the provinces to create the national hydrometric program, which we're working together in to blend the 2,800 monitoring sites. It's a concrete result of the Canada Water

Environment committee  The short answer is that we are looking at the trends. We started monitoring in 1908. The trends have varied. It is a bit different, as you walk through the Great Lakes, but we actually hit a record low in 2013, if you remember January 2013 in Michigan-Huron, and that has rebound