BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The objective of this research is to identify and analyze social, political, economic, environmental and business trends that are expected to influence the water sector over the next twenty years. The research will:
• evaluate the use by water utilities of the outcomes of the previous Foundation “Futures” studies
• identify new and changing trends
• identify potential impacts and planning level strategies that will help water utilities position themselves to manage outcomes of impacts and shape their own successful futures
• identify research projects that will help water utilities make the transitions.
The research will support the development of a conceptual blueprint of what the water sector may look like in 10 to 20 years, and project a vision of the desired future and potential strategies for achieving this vision.