POLIS Water Sustainability Project

The POLIS Water Sustainability Project began in 2003 as a focused initiative of the University of Victoria’s POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. Originally established as the “Urban Water Demand Management Project,” our focus quickly broadened to include fundamental governance issues—including long-term, comprehensive, watershed-based planning and innovative institutional and ecosystem-based legal reforms. To reflect this change, in 2005 we changed our name to the Water Sustainability Project. In 2011, POLIS moved to the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) and is currently housed there as one of CFGS’s ongoing interdisciplinary projects.

The POLIS Water Sustainability Project—an action-based research group situated at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies

Funded by The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Vancouver Foundation, Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, and the Sitka Foundation.

Core Institutional Backing: University of Victoria and  The American Tides Foundation, aka the MakeWay Foundation & Partners: ECO Canada and the Eco-Research Chair: Environmental Law Centre.