In December 2009, Government initiated its engagement process on Water Act <\/em>Modernization by launching the Living Water Smart Blog. The blog provided information and acted as a forum through which British Columbians could discuss water issues and options for legislative change. Policy Scoping In December 2009, Government initiated its engagement process on Water Act Modernization by launching the Living Water Smart Blog. The blog provided information and acted as a forum through which British Columbians could discuss water issues and options for legislative change. In February 2010, Government invited submissions from British Columbians on the\u00a0Water … 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-3238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3238\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIn February 2010, Government invited submissions from British Columbians on the\u00a0Water Act Modernization Discussion Paper. The discussion paper proposed eight principles to underpin a modernized Water Act <\/em>as well as four goals, supporting objectives and possible solutions. The discussion paper and a supporting Technical Background Report\u00a0were devel\u00adoped to further encourage dialogue on ways to modernize the Water Act <\/em>and describe oppor\u00adtunities for using, sustaining and managing water resources in our changing environment.
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\nDiscussion Paper<\/a> [PDF 2.69MB] \u2013 February 2010
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\nTechnical Background Report<\/a> [PDF\u00a03.14MB] \u2013 February 2010
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\nDuring this phase British Columbians sent in thousands of\u00a0submissions<\/a>\u00a0and offered many great ideas covering everything from how to protect groundwater to how to ensure that streams and lakes stay healthy. In December 2010 government released a Report on Engagement summarizing this input from British Columbians. Comments received covered a broad range of interests and perspectives. Overall, there was broad support for the eight principles and goals described in the Discussion Paper.
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\nReport on Engagement<\/a> [PDF 11.27MB] \u2013 September 2010
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