WaterCity 2040 is a 3-city multi-stakeholder scenario planning initiative.
Launching in September 2014 and running for 9 months in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, this initiative will bring together community and decision makers to:
- Collaborate, envision and design plausible futures
- Identify the necessary steps to create these futures
WaterCity 2040 will activate the knowledge, creativity and skills of young professionals as they work alongside current decision-makers to co-develop a 25-year water vision.
Each city will focus on innovative ways to interact with, use, capture and reuse water, weather change impacts and adaptation, application and implementation of low-impact design, the protection and restoration of urban waterways and outline new policies to move cities towards a sustainable future. Using Waterlution’s facilitation processes, we will guide each city to develop action reports that will be made public and shared with decision-makers. The success of the 2014-2015 project will result in adding more cities the following year, and/or playing a pivotal role in realizing the co-created action plans.
This is a first-of-its kind open and cross-sector consultation with Canadians in urban centres to design the future they want for their city, while considering possible futures, factors, shocks and trends and how resilience could be built towards these. This opportunity merges innovative ideas, design thinking and social change around topics of water (quality and quantity), environment, health, and sustainability challenges.
Join Waterlution as they kick-start this process! You do not have to be a water “expert” to join – they are looking for a diversity of thinkers and backgrounds to reflect the larger system – so please share this opportunity widely.
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This program is supported by Tides Canada and the RBC Blue Water Project.
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