Shared Waters

The International Elk-Kootenai/y Watershed Study Board held its first in-person meeting in Kalispell, Montana, from November 19-21, 2024. Since being formed in September 2024, the study board has held several virtual meetings.

The International Joint Commission has identified enhancing the role of Indigenous Peoples in collaborative governance as a strategic priority over the next few years.

Across the transboundary region shared between Canada, the United States and many Indigenous Nations, water resource management experts are reporting increasing pressures on hydrological systems driven by climate change.

Most of the world’s freshwater flows are shared by multiple countries. Conflicts between countries over their shared waters can and do arise.

With fish passageways now in place across the whole Red River system and an expanded telemetry network, species such as lake sturgeon, bigmouth buffalo, walleye and freshwater drum appear to be traveling wherever they can find habitat, according to the latest update of a long-