Thursday, January 27, 2011

Conservation Authorities and Province Partner to Protect Ontario’s Drinking Water Sources through New Phase of Stewardship Program for Landowners and Businesses :: NorthumberlandView.ca :: A View Like No Other

"The ODWSP operates under the Clean Water Act (2006) which helps protect drinking water from source to tap with a multi-barrier approach that stops contaminants from entering sources of drinking water - lakes, rivers and aquifers.

Ontario's Clean Water Act:

requires that local communities - through local Source Protection Committees - assess existing and potential threats to their water, and that they set out and implement the actions needed to reduce or eliminate these threats
empowers communities to take action to prevent threats from becoming significant
requires public participation on every local source protection plan - the planning process for source protection is open to anyone in the community
requires that all plans and actions are based on sound science.
More Information on ODWSP and Conservation Authorities - Conservation Ontario Backgrounder http://www.conservationontario.ca/source_protection/protection.html"

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