Business Plan
As the recently appointed Minister responsible for the Water Security Agency (WSA), I am proud to present the Business Plan for 2025-26.
WSA identified several goals to help improve service delivery, provide more information on water supplies and continue to build public trust among the province and people we serve.
Currently, WSA owns and operates over 70 dams and control structures, plus reservoirs, conveyance channels and pump stations across the province. WSA is developing a Water Infrastructure Management Framework to better ensure the reliability of the structures our province and communities rely on.
Expanding irrigation in Saskatchewan is a key goal of Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan: The Next Decade of Growth 2020-2030. Leading the way to this goal is the Westside Irrigation Rehabilitation Project (WIRP) from the westside of Lake Diefenbaker. This transformational project will continue the design and engineering as it works towards construction. When complete, it will add up to 90,000 new irrigable acres.
Over the years, WSA worked with a number of communities to provide flood mapping and flood risk assessments. WSA will continue to deliver flood mapping through an enhanced program to help communities make plans to mitigate potential flood impacts.
Saskatchewan’s producers are caretakers of more than 4.6M acres of wetlands. WSA will be working with them to implement the Agricultural Water Stewardship Policy. The stewardship policy helps ensure agricultural drainage is done responsibly, balancing development with landscape resiliency.
Public trust in our government is important, and WSA is establishing and building this trust through the creation of a client services unit and increased communications about WSA policies, programs and operations. This year, WSA is undertaking work to develop a public trust strategy that will contribute to our comprehensive brand and program marketing strategies.
And finally, WSA works as a partner with our clients to help them realize their project goals while maintaining regulatory approvals. This year, WSA will work to further improve compliance by developing an outcome-based compliance framework. This improved compliance framework will provide a clear, consistent and effective approach to delivering regulatory compliance programming that is outcome focused.
The Water Security Agency will report on progress towards the targets laid out in this plan, within the financial parameters provided, in the 2025-26 Annual Report.
Sincerely,
Daryl Harrison
Minister Responsible for the Water Security Agency
2025-26 Water Security Agency Plan
2024-25 Water Security Agency Plan