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The Clean Water Act received Royal Assent on October 19, 2006. It ensures communities are able to protect their municipal drinking water supplies through developing collaborative, locally driven, science-based protection plans. Communities will identify potential risks to local water sources and take action to reduce or eliminate these risks. Municipalities, conservation authorities, property owners, farmers, industry, community groups and the public will all work together to meet common goals.
Legislation: View the legislation.
Regulations: View the description
of proposed regulations to implement the Clean Water
Act
Passing of the Clean Water Act: View the news release and backgrounder.
Drinking Water Stewardship Fund: The act creates a drinking water support program to help farmers and small rural businesses take action to reduce threats to local drinking water sources. A panel that includes agricultural, municipal and conservation authority representatives will provide advice on how the drinking water stewardship program should be administered and allocated. View the news release and information about panel members.
How does the Clean Water Act affect me?
The proposed Clean Water Act directs communities to prepare
plans to protect their drinking water supply. There would
be a role for landowners, business owners, community groups
and others, including participation in local consultations.
A series of fact sheets
has been prepared to explain the implications of the proposed
legislation.
How drinking water can become contaminated:
Three animated illustrations
show how contaminants can migrate from their source into
a drinking water supply.
The Clean Water Act and source water protection: The
Clean Water Act is related to other activities to protect sources of drinking
water. Reports and other information from the Ministry of the Environment
related to protecting water at the source can be viewed at the Watershed-based
Source Protection page.
For more information, please visit the Ministry of the Environment's
main water page.
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