Canada, U.S. find common ground on core issues to modernize decades-old water management agreement
Canada and the United States have reached an"agreement-in-principle" to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, a decades-old pact between the two countries that provides flood-risk management and power generation in B.C. and the Pacific Northwest.
Both countries agree that a modernized treaty will provide flood-risk management and continued cooperation on hydropower generation on the Columbia River. The new provisions are reflective of feedback from Columbia Basin residents, local governments and Indigenous nations for over a decade. The agreement also outlines U.S. compensation to Canada for flood risk management; Canada will receive annual payments of $37.6 million indexed to inflation until 2044. Further, Canada will receive $16.6 million in additional benefits from in the operation of the Canadian reservoirs annually to 2044.
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