Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Hydrological Services

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGU02 (EC)

Core responsibility

Predicting Weather and Environmental Conditions

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The objective of the Hydrological Services Program is to support water management decisions that protect the health and safety of Canadians and ecosystems. The Program collects, generates and shares information on water quantity and flow in Canadian and cross-border waters in support of Canada’s domestic and international water management commitments and obligations. As a cost-shared Program, it coordinates a suite of activities in partnership with provinces and territories, including generating real-time and archived hydrometric data. The Program also provides engineering advice and analysis to a diverse range of users. These include provincial, territorial and municipal water management authorities, hydro-electric power generators, industry, Indigenous organizations, waterfront residents, and commercial and recreational water users. The Program contributes to global water management through provision of technical advice and data contributions to the International Joint Commission, which works to protect waters shared by Canada and the U.S., as well as to Canada-U.S. water boards and other users of water data.

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).

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

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