STRATEGIC PLANMaster Agreement on Apportionment • March 22nd, 2023
Recognizing that water use within one province may impact another province and because federal and provincial governments have shared responsibility for water, the Governments of Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba signed the Master Agreement on Apportionment (MAA) in October 1969. The purpose of this Agreement is to apportion water between the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and to protect surface water quality and transboundary aquifers. The MAA also provides for the cooperation of the governments in transboundary water management and establishes the Prairie Provinces Water Board (PPWB) to administer the Agreement. The MAA is comprised of the core agreement, five schedules, and two amending agreements. Schedule C defines the duties and authority of the PPWB.
But rivers, lakes and aquifers do not conform to provincial boundaries. For 50 years, the Master Agreement on Apportionment (MAA) has allowed the three Prairie Provinces to collaboratively set goals for the management of important transboundary...Master Agreement on Apportionment • November 19th, 2019
Few interjurisdictional agreements have been in place as long as the MAA. Governments change. Population centres grow. The needs of industry shift.
CHARTERMaster Agreement on Apportionment • February 24th, 2022
Recognizing that water use within one province may impact another province and because federal and provincial governments have shared responsibility for water, the Governments of Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba signed the Master Agreement on Apportionment (MAA) in October 1969. The purpose of this Agreement is to apportion water between the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and to protect surface water quality and transboundary aquifers. The MAA also provides for the cooperation of the governments in transboundary water management and establishes the Prairie Provinces Water Board (PPWB) to administer the Agreement.
But rivers, lakes and aquifers do not conform to provincial boundaries. For 50 years, the Master Agreement on Apportionment (MAA) has allowed the three Prairie Provinces to collaboratively set goals for the management of important transboundary...Master Agreement on Apportionment • November 19th, 2019
Few interjurisdictional agreements have been in place as long as the MAA. Governments change. Population centres grow. The needs of industry shift.
The Master Agreement on Apportionment – 1969Master Agreement on Apportionment • October 12th, 2017
• By 1960s, provinces began requesting large allocations of water and the PPWB approach could not adequately plan for the long-term.
SHARING WATER ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIESMaster Agreement on Apportionment • May 26th, 2020
To share the water fairly, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Canada signed an agreement in 1969, the “Master Agreement on Apportionment” (MAA).
MASTER AGREEMENTMaster Agreement on Apportionment • September 24th, 2015
In 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.
