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Program directory · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Water Infrastructure

Program code
BWN06 (AGR)
Core responsibility
Domestic and International Markets
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2020-21 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

Under Water Infrastructure, the Department manages federally owned water structures in southern Saskatchewan, which serve the agricultural and rural communities by providing irrigation, recreation, community supplies and livestock watering.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-23Water Infrastructure 2018-19: $38.5MWater Infrastructure 2019-20: $3.9MWater Infrastructure 2020-21: $4MWater Infrastructure 2021-22: $3.5MWater Infrastructure 2022-23: $3.5MWater Infrastructure
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Water InfrastructureThis program2018-19 – 2022-23$46.4M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Spending $3.9M, against $38.5M in 2018-19 (−90%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Number of dam safety Emergency Preparedness Plans for high or very high consequence dams, which are completed in compliance with the Canadian Dam Association's Dam Safety Guidelines, within agreed timelines
Expected result: Water storage infrastructure is operationally safe and downstream risks are kept as low as reasonably practical
12018-19✓ met12019-20✓ met12020-21✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 120191Met
2019-20≥ 120201
Target achieved.
Met
2020-21≥ 120211Met
Number of dam safety Emergency Response Plans for high or very high consequence dams, which are completed in compliance with the Canadian Dam Association's Dam Safety Guidelines, within agreed timelines
Expected result: Water storage infrastructure is operationally safe and downstream risks are kept as low as reasonably practical
12018-19✓ met12019-20✓ met12020-21✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 120191Met
2019-20≥ 120201
Target achieved.
Met
2020-21≥ 120211Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $3.4M2018-19: $38.5M2018-192019-20: $3.4M2019-20: $3.9M2019-202020-21: $3.4M2020-21: $4M2020-212021-22: $3.5M2021-222022-23: $3.5M2022-23
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$3.4M$38.5M
2019-20$3.4M$3.9M
2020-21$3.4M$4M
2021-22$3.5M*—
2022-23$3.5M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 342018-19: 362018-192019-20: 372019-20: 342019-202020-21: 372020-21: 232020-212021-22: 372021-222022-23: 372022-23
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-193436
2019-203734
2020-213723
2021-2237*—
2022-2337*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-23
2018-19 plan$3,396,591$3,331,601$3,331,601
2019-20 plan$3,387,463$3,383,315$3,383,315
2020-21 plan$3,448,069$3,469,207$3,479,891
Actual$38,523,974$3,867,939$4,041,052

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.