Professor Stephen Smith

The report on Water and Agriculture in Canada: Towards Sustainable Management of Water Resources

The report on Water and Agriculture in Canada: Towards Sustainable Management of Water Resources, prepared by The Expert Panel on Sustainable Management of Water in the Agricultural Landscapes of Canada, was published by the Council of Canadian Academies on Tuesday 26th February.

The full report, executive summary, and the Council’s summary document (The Report in Focus) can be found at this link: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/water-agri.aspx.

 Professor Stephen Smith was an invited expert on the Panel, which began work in May 2011 (see Environmental and Water Resource Engineering - May News 2011), and he was the only international representative from outside of North America. Professor Smith was principal author of Chapter 5 in the report on Promising Farm-Scale Technologies: Improving Water Productivity and Mitigating Environmental Impacts.