Title page 1

Contents 5

Summary and Key Messages 3

1.0. Why Action on Water and Nature Matters 6

2.0. What Did the Survey Cover, and Who Participated? 8

2.1. What Did We Learn? 8

References 20

Table 1. Urgency to take action to respond to climate change 8

Table 2. Water issues experienced by Canadians and their immediate family in the past 5 years (top issues identified) 10

Table 3. Benefits of using natural infrastructure solutions, top responses 14

Table 4. Drawbacks to the use of natural infrastructure solutions 14

Table 5. Impact on the favourability of elected officials who support natural infrastructure 16

Figure 1. Urgency for governments to take action to improve Canada's water infrastructure 9

Figure 2. Reported impacts of water-related problems on Canadians and their households, friends, or close acquaintances 11

Figure 3. Frequency of water problems compared to 10 years ago 12

Figure 4. Urgency planning and implementing natural infrastructure in communities 13

Figure 5. Preferred funding approaches for natural infrastructure projects, top responses 15