{"id":2410,"date":"2013-11-15T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:09:26","slug":"blog-post-7-deadline-for-feedback-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2013\/11\/15\/blog-post-7-deadline-for-feedback-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #7 \u2013 Deadline for feedback approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the final day of the feedback period on the proposed new<i> Water Sustainability Act<\/i> for BC.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been gathering your comments and questions on the proposal including the seven key policy areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protecting stream health and aquatic environments<\/li>\n<li>Consider water in land use decisions<\/li>\n<li>Regulate and protect groundwater use<\/li>\n<li>Regulate during scarcity<\/li>\n<li>Improve security, water use efficiency and conservation<\/li>\n<li>Measure and reporting water use<\/li>\n<li>Enable a range of governance approaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ve provided hundreds of comments on the Blog and thousands more via email that we are continuing to <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/whatweheard\/\">post on the website<\/a>. We really appreciate your time and effort!<\/p>\n<p>Have some final thoughts? Have a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2013\/10\/WSA_overview_web.pdf\">Overview<\/a> document, watch one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TaxYfsb8UUk\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a> or review the <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2013\/10\/WSA_legislative-proposal_web-doc.pdf\">Legislative Proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Post a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/livingwatersmart\/?p=964#comments\">comment on the Blog<\/a> or send an email to <a href=\"mailto:livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca\">livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca<\/a>.\u00a0 All comments received by midnight tonight will be considered as government prepares a final version of the new legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the final day of the feedback period on the proposed new Water Sustainability Act for BC. We\u2019ve been gathering your comments and questions on the proposal including the seven key policy areas: Protecting stream health and aquatic environments Consider water in land use decisions Regulate and protect groundwater use Regulate during scarcity Improve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2013\/11\/15\/blog-post-7-deadline-for-feedback-approaching\/\">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-2410","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\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}