MASTER AGREEMENTMaster Agreement on Apportionment • September 24th, 2015
Contract Type FiledSeptember 24th, 2015In 1948, Alberta Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Canada signed the Prairie Provinces Water Board Agreement. This Agreement established a Board to recommend the best use of interprovincial waters, and to recommend allocations between provinces. After some twenty years, changes in regional water management philosophies resulted in a need to modify the role of the Board, Consequently, the four governments entered into the Master Agreement on Apportionment on October 30, 1969. This Agreement provided an apportionment formula for eastward flowing interprovincial streams, gave recognition to the problem of water quality, and reconstituted the Prairie Provinces Water Board.