{"id":3306,"date":"2016-02-19T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qa.engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/?page_id=3306"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T23:20:19","slug":"2015-submissions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2015-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 &#8211; 2016 Updating &amp; Replacing Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"\/watersustainabilityact\/2015\/07\/30\/blog-post-16-proposed-water-policies-what-do-you-think\/\">four policy intention papers<\/a>\u00a0released in July 2015, government received written comments from 30 organizations, and 24 individuals (August \u2013 September). Through a concurrent process with First Nations, government received 51 additional written submissions from individuals, Aboriginal organizations, and bands about the Water Sustainability Act, the intention papers, and Aboriginal Rights and Title.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSubmissions addressed a wide range of topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Value and importance of water to First Nations and their communities<\/li>\n<li>Aboriginal interests, rights and title and FITFIR<\/li>\n<li>Involvement of First Nations in water management<\/li>\n<li>Water reservations for First Nations<\/li>\n<li>Notification requirements related to licensing decisions<\/li>\n<li>Consideration of water sustainability in licensing decisions<\/li>\n<li>Availability and quality of data and information<\/li>\n<li>Water pricing, revenue sharing, capacity funding and shared decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Connection between fines and orders to the extent of environmental damage<\/li>\n<li>Determination of hydraulic connectivity between streams and aquifers<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory consistency and agency coordination<\/li>\n<li>Length of the water licence review period<\/li>\n<li>Requirements for well registration, monitoring and reporting; and decommissioning<\/li>\n<li>Managing artesian wells<\/li>\n<li>Professional qualifications<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater well setbacks and construction standards<\/li>\n<li>Requirements related to monitoring risk downstream of a dam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Living Water Smart Team summarized input related to proposed new regulations and provided it to regulation drafting teams for further consideration by government.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBelow please find all of the submissions received throughout the process:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/watersustainabilityact\/whatweheard\/\">A to Z Index<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/watersustainabilityact\/category\/blog\/\">Archived Blog &amp; Online Discussion<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to four policy intention papers\u00a0released in July 2015, government received written comments from 30 organizations, and 24 individuals (August \u2013 September). Through a concurrent process with First Nations, government received 51 additional written submissions from individuals, Aboriginal organizations, and bands about the Water Sustainability Act, the intention papers, and Aboriginal Rights and Title. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2015-submissions\/\">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-3306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3306\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}