{"id":3174,"date":"2016-02-18T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qa.engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/?page_id=3174"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T23:24:27","slug":"engagementprocess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/engagementprocess\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the project of updating provincial water law began in 2009, government has heard from First Nations, industry and environmental groups, local governments, and individuals with an interest in our water resource. British Columbians sent in thousands of\u00a0submissions\u00a0<\/a>with ideas covering everything from how to protect groundwater, how to ensure our streams and lakes stay healthy, to considering water when we make land use decisions. These ideas helped to inform the policies in the new Water Sustainability Act (<\/em>WSA) <\/em>and the new regulations that came into force on February 29, 2016.
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\nModernization Process<\/a>
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2009-2010: Policy Scoping<\/a>
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\n2010-2013: Policy Development<\/a>
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\n2013-2014: Development of Bill 18 and Royal Assent<\/a>
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\n2014-2015: Water Pricing Review<\/a>
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\n2015-2016: Updating and Replacing Water Act Regulations<\/a>
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\n2016-Ongoing: Outstanding Regulations and Policies<\/a><\/p>\n

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Written Submissions<\/a>
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2009 – 2013\u00a0Water Sustainability Act Development<\/a>
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\n2014\u00a0– 2015 Water Pricing Review<\/a>
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\n2015\u00a0– 2016 Updating & Replacing Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n

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Archived Blog & Online Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the project of updating provincial water law began in 2009, government has heard from First Nations, industry and environmental groups, local governments, and individuals with an interest in our water resource. British Columbians sent in thousands of\u00a0submissions\u00a0with ideas covering everything from how to protect groundwater, how to ensure our streams and lakes stay healthy, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3174\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}