Mackenzie River Basin Board

The Mackenzie River Basin has unique cultural, political, geographic and environmental characteristics, which are significant by world standards. The Basin is massive, covering a staggering 1.8 million square kilometers, or nearly one-fifth of the area in Canada, and has a relatively small population of less than half a million people. While people live in many different communities throughout the basin, everyone, in some way, depends on the rivers, lakes, deltas and waterways for their livelihood and way of life.