Over the past twenty years there have been calls to improve the need for monitoring components of the water cycle and reporting on the status of water resources in Canada. Some call for a comprehensive approach, but none have adopted a water cycle approach. Water monitoring in Canada is highly fragmented jurisdictionally, and unbalanced in geographic coverage, scale and resolution which can translate into biased gauging and reporting. With increasing human, agricultural, and industrial demands on water; and increasingly rapid changes in both climate and land uses, there is much need for improved monitoring and delivery of information on all major components of the water cycle. An interdisciplinary approach to delivery of monitoring precipitation, snow, glaciers, soil moisture, surface water, groundwater, and permafrost is required. It will need to integrate field and Earth Observation data, follow a network-of-network model and adopt a FAIR framework Such an approach would be more cost-efficient and enhance the economic value of both individual monitoring networks and knowledge on water cycle components. Advancing such an approach requires increased communication, collaboration, and recognition that we are all reliant on sub-disciplines within the broad discipline of hydrology. The Canada Water Agency is developing a National Freshwater Data Strategy that will hopefully provide a framework for interdepartmental and intergovernmental collaboration. There continues to be a need for science leadership from government and academia to develop coordination between the subnets within a network-of-networks that could be supported by operational programs that already partially address monitoring needs.