{"id":2323,"date":"2013-11-11T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:09:26","slug":"blog-post-5-water-objectives-connecting-land-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2013\/11\/11\/blog-post-5-water-objectives-connecting-land-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #5 \u2013 Water objectives: connecting land and water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve posted <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/video-gallery\/\">three more videos <\/a>covering the topics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36ot_f400mM\">Regulating During Scarcity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXA6ulqitEU\">Water Governance <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u49obK4-rgM\">Measuring and Reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also put up two more volumes of <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/whatweheard\/\">email submissions<\/a>. In the past three weeks, we\u2019ve received over 200 emails and almost 100 blog comments. Thank you all for taking the time to give us feedback on this important legislation. <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/\">Keep your comments coming <\/a>in this\u00a0final week of the\u00a0feedback period!<\/p>\n<p>The importance of water quality protection has been\u00a0raised a few times in your comments. Currently, provincial natural resource legislation and local government statutes include a number of measures intended to protect water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem health, however these measures vary across statutes.\u00a0 For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.env.gov.bc.ca\/epd\/main\/ema.htm\">Environmental Management Act <\/a>protects water quality by regulating industrial and municipal waste discharge, pollution, hazardous waste and contaminated site remediation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.bc.ca\/protect\/dwact.html\">Drinking Water Protection Act <\/a>provides the legal framework for drinking water protection in BC.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.for.gov.bc.ca\/code\/\">Forest and Range Practices A<\/a>ct and its regulations include water quality provisions to protect water resources from the impacts of forest practices on Crown land.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Water Sustainability Act would allow government to establish Water Objectives for water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem health.\u00a0 Water Objectives would provide strategic direction and a more consistent approach for decision-makers \u2013 primarily those in the natural resource sector and within local governments \u2013 when making decisions which may impact water resources. Objectives could be established for a stream, an aquifer or an area of land or watershed.\u00a0 Decision-makers would also be empowered to establish terms and conditions in authorizations to help prevent or mitigate water-related impacts. \u00a0Development and implementation of the Objectives would be integrated with other government programmes such as government\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.env.gov.bc.ca\/emop\/\">Environmental Mitigation Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How do you see Water Objectives working?\u00a0 Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve posted three more videos covering the topics of Regulating During Scarcity, Water Governance and Measuring and Reporting. We\u2019ve also put up two more volumes of email submissions. In the past three weeks, we\u2019ve received over 200 emails and almost 100 blog comments. Thank you all for taking the time to give us feedback on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2013\/11\/11\/blog-post-5-water-objectives-connecting-land-and-water\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}