The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency (before 2013, the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority) is an arm's length organization responsible for the management of water resources to ensure safe drinking water sources and reliable water supplies for economic, environmental, and social benefits in

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North ...

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. The Agency is a Treasury Board

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administered by a board of directors appointed by the provincial government.Water Security Agency is located in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada and is part of the Water, Sewage and Other Systems Industry. Water Security Agency has 870 total employees across all of its locations and generates $63.62 million in sales (USD). (Sales figure is modelled). There are 1,121 companies in the Water Security Agency corporate family. The Agency * operates dams and related facilities, * maintains an inventory of the quantity and quality of ground and surface water, * administers the allocation of water, * regulates and controls the flow of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and other bodies of water, * represents the provincial government when negotiating interprovincial and international water agreements, * regulates water works and drainage works, * develops flood forecasting and identify flood susceptible areas, * promotes the efficient use of water for environmental and socio-economic benefits, * develops watershed studies and research, * protects watersheds, including ecosystems, erosion control, waterfowl conservation and fish habitats, * manages the Saskatchewan Safe Drinking Water Strategy

Dams, weirs, and reservoirs operated by the agency

The following is a list of dams, weirs, and reservoirs operated by the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency: * Avonlea Dam * Blackstrap North Dam * Blackstrap South Dam *

Bradwell East Dam Bradwell Reservoir is a man-made reservoir in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343. The reservoir was built as part of the South Saskatchewan River Project. That project involved the damming of the ...

Bradwell West Dam Bradwell Reservoir is a man-made reservoir in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343. The reservoir was built as part of the South Saskatchewan River Project. That project involved the damming of the ...

Brightwater Creek Dam Brightwater Creek is a river in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River in a region called the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, which extends throughout three Canadian provinces and five ...

Broderick East Dam Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin. It is also a given name. English origin A toponymic name the broad ridge and Bawdrip, a manor near Bridgwater ...

Broderick West Dam Broderick Reservoir is a reservoir about south-southeast of Outlook in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the Rural Municipality of Rudy No. 284. Broderick Reservoir was built in 1967 as part of South Saskatchewan River Project. That ...

* Buffalo Pound Dam * Candle Lake Dam * Chicken Lake Dam *

Cowan Lake Dam Cowan Lake is a lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the Beaver River watershed. The primary inflow for the lake is Big River at the lake's southern end by the town of Big River and the outflow, located near the lake's northern ...

Craven Dam Craven Dam is at the confluence of the Qu'Appelle River and Last Mountain Creek and immediately east of the village of Craven on the Qu'Appelle River at SW 24-20-21 W2. It is in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the RM of Longlaketon ...

* Crooked Lake Dam *

Darmody Dam Darmody can refer to: Places * Darmody, Saskatchewan, Canada People * Aubrey Darmody, a Welsh footballer * Jimmy Darmody, a fictional character in ''Boardwalk Empire'' * Nathan Darmody, former drummer for Allstar Weekend * Steve Darmody Ste ...

* Dellwood Brook Dam * Echo Lake Dam * Esterhazy Dam * Five Mile Dam * Gardiner Dam *

Grant Devine Dam The Grant Devine Dam, formerly ''Alameda Dam'', is an embankment dam located near Alameda, and Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was constructed in 1994 to control flows on the Moose Mountain Creek, and Souris River. It provides flood protectio ...

* Hugonard Dam * Katepwa Dam * Kingsway Dam * Kipahigan Lake Dam * Lac la Plonge Dam * Lac la Ronge Dam * Makwa Lake Control * Moose Mountain Dam *

Moosomin Dam Moosomin Lake, also known as Moosomin Reservoir, is a man-made lake in south-eastern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Created by the damming of Pipestone Creek in 1954, Moosomin Lake is located about south of the town of Mooso ...

* Northminster Effuent Reservoir *

Opuntia Lake Control ''Opuntia'', commonly called prickly pear or pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as ''tuna'' (fruit), ''sabra'', '' nopal'' (paddle, plural ''nopales'') from the Nahuatl word ...

* Pike Lake Water Supply * Qu'Appelle River Dam * Rafferty Dam * Round Lake Dam * Scott Dam *

Spruce River Dam Spruce River, also called Little Red River, is a river in the north-central region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It begins in the Waskesiu Hills in Prince Albert National Park and flows generally in a southward direction through ...

Star City Dam A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth mak ...

* Stelcam Weir * Summercove Dam * Tee-Pee Creek Dam *

Theodore Dam Theodore Reservoir is a man-made reservoir along the Whitesand River in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The lake was formed with the building of Theodore Dam in 1964. The reservoir and dam were named after the nearby community of Theod ...

* Wascana Lake Weir *

West Poplar Dam West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

Woody Lake Weir Woody may refer to: Biology * Pertaining to wood, a plant tissue and material * Woody plant, a plant with a rigid stem containing wood * Pertaining to woodland, land covered with trees * Woody, slang for a penile erection People and fictional ...

Valeport Dam Last Mountain Creek is a river in south-central Saskatchewan. It is a tributary of the Qu'Appelle River in a region called the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, which extends throughout three Canadian provinces and five U.S. states. I ...

* Zelma Dam

References

External links

* *https://www.wsask.ca/Lakes-and-Rivers/Dams-and-Reservoirs/ {{Authority control Crown corporations of Saskatchewan Water management authorities

Dams, weirs, and reservoirs operated by the agency

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