Program directory · Canada Water Agency
Freshwater Management Program
- Department
- Canada Water Agency
- Program code
- BYR01 (WATER)
- Core responsibility
- Freshwater Stewardship
- In Departmental Plans
- 2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Freshwater Management Program responds to Canada’s regional freshwater challenges and priorities by contributing to improved management, protection, and restoration of fresh water, including priority ecosystems under the Freshwater Action Plan, delivery of the EcoAction Community Funding Program, and involvement in domestic and binational water boards. This Program supports on-the-ground action to restore and protect water quality and aquatic ecosystem health; enhances governance to support improved collaboration with Indigenous partners, provinces and territories, and stakeholders; mobilizes
knowledge and reporting to support decision- making; and improves climate change resiliency. This Program enables other federal departments and agencies, Indigenous peoples, provinces, territories, and stakeholders.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2024-25. 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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freshwater Management Program | This program | 2024-25 – 2028-29 | $31.6M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Budget 2023 measure “Protecting Our Freshwater”: $239M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2023, PDF page 164 |
| 2025-26 | Renamed from “Freshwater Management” to “Freshwater Management Program”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $61.3M, against $31.6M in 2024-25 (+94%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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
No results reported yet.
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 140 | 2030 | — | Planned |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 100% – 100% | 2033 | — | Planned |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 196 | 2033 | — | Planned |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 25 | 2033 | — | Planned |
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | — | $31.6M |
| 2025-26 | $61.3M | — |
| 2026-27 | $62.3M | — |
| 2027-28 | $65.7M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $63.5M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 118 | — |
| 2026-27 | 122 | — |
| 2027-28 | 122* | — |
| 2028-29 | 122* | — |
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
| Plan | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 plan | $61,328,357 | $61,646,567 | $65,536,317 | |
| 2026-27 plan | $62,317,656 | $65,695,966 | $63,532,219 | |
| Actual |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
