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While there is a popular perception that Canada is a water-rich country, theSaskatchewan River basin (SRB) in Western Canada exemplifies the multiplethreats to water security seen worldwide. It is Canada's majorfood-producing region and home to globally significant natural resourcedevelopment. The SRB faces current water challenges stemming from (1) aseries of extreme events, including major flood and drought events since theturn of the 21st century, (2) full allocation of existing waterresources in parts of the basin, (3) rapid population growth and economicdevelopment, (4) increasing pollution, and (5) fragmented and overlappinggovernance that includes the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, andManitoba, various Federal and First Nations responsibilities, andinternational boundaries. The interplay of these factors has increasedcompetition for water across economic sectors and among provinces, betweenupstream and downstream users, between environmental flows and human needs,and among people who hold different values about the meaning, ownership, anduse of water. These current challenges are set in a context of significantenvironmental and societal change, including widespread land modification,rapid urbanization, resource exploitation, climate warming, and deepuncertainties about future water supplies. We use Sivapalan et al.'s (2012)framework of socio-hydrology to argue that the SRB's water securitychallenges are symptoms of dynamic and complex water systems approachingcritical thresholds and tipping points. To Sivapalan et al.'s (2012)emphasis on water cycle dynamics, we add the need for governance mechanismsto manage emergent systems and translational science to link science andpolicy to the socio-hydrology agenda

Socio-hydrology and the science–policy interface: a case study of the Saskatchewan River basin