Rainwater Management Handbook Available

The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in partnership with University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre recently released the latest instalment in its water sustainability handbook series.Peeling Back the Pavement: A Blueprint for Reinventing Rainwater Management in Canada’s Communities outlines the problems with conventional stormwater management and examines solutions for moving toward sustainability. 
The Handbook provides a comprehensive blueprint that outlines the crucial steps necessary to change the way communities manage and, importantly, govern stormwater. The blueprint describes detailed actions that local and senior levels of government can take now to move from the current system of stormwater management to one based on a whole-system approach that treats rainwater as a resource.
A main focus of the publication is addressing the fragmented responsibility for fresh water across and within jurisdictions—one of the greatest challenges to reinventing rainwater management.