Water Security Agency offers funding for agricultural projects

Funding is flowing from Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency to help some farmers and ranchers in the province.

On Wednesday, the WSA announced $700,000 is available for what the agency called “responsible agricultural water management projects.”

“The Agricultural Water Management Fund is a pilot program that supports WSA’s Agricultural Water Management Strategy with a goal to help farmers and ranchers create responsibly managed and sustainable agricultural water management networks focused on controlling and organizing water flows,” the agency said in a media release.

Farmers can get up to $95,000 per project based on a cost-sharing approach. The funding can be used to pay technical and engineering costs and for mitigation and rehabilitation work for new projects.

More information about the Agricultural Water Management Fund is available here.