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Ontario Parks BWAs
Drinking Water Source Protection
The Clean Water Act requires local multi-stakeholder source protection committees to prepare science based assessment reports for designated watershed areas.
These reports identify and assess threats to drinking water sources listed in the committee's terms of reference. The information they contain is used to prepare the source protection plans. These science-based plans will tell what actions are required to address threats to drinking water sources.
Beginning in late 2009, source protection planning in Ontario reached a milestone. As the drinking water source protection planning process continues across the province, the science-based assessment reports being prepared by source protection committees have begun to be issued in draft for public review and comment.
Find the Assessment Report for your Source Protection Region or Area.
Locate your Source Protection Region or Area on a map.
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Throne speech, 3/8/10 - Water section
As part of its Open Ontario Plan, your government will introduce legislation that will build on Ontario's expertise in clean-water technology.
The Water Opportunities Act would lay the foundation for new Ontario jobs and make our province the North American leader in the development and sale of new technologies and services for water conservation and treatment.
The Conference Board of Canada estimates the global market for water technology at more than $400 billion US per year -- and doubling every five to six years.
In the next 20 years, worldwide demand for water is expected to be 40 per cent greater than current supply -- a crisis in the making if the world does not act.
Already, Ontario is beginning to provide solutions.
From water conservation to nanotechnology, Ontario companies are leading the way -- and employing 22,000 people in good, high-paying Ontario jobs selling water technology around the world.
Your government will work with our colleges, universities and entrepreneurs to create even more Ontario jobs and attract even more clean-water expertise and investment to our province.
It will strengthen protections for our water -- including the Great Lakes.
It will build on our strong foundation of water expertise -- and make our province the clean water capital of North America.
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