Livestock that graze on range land drink water directly from streams and other water bodies, as well as from off-stream watering systems such as a watering trough. Managing livestock watering by limiting access through riparian areas and keeping livestock out of streams helps to protect water quality and aquatic ecosystem health.<\/p>\n
Government released an intentions paper<\/a> proposing new regulations that would improve livestock watering practices on range land where there is low-density livestock grazing on Crown land and private range lands. The proposed regulations would allow the diversion of water from a stream or aquifer for livestock watering and also allow for construction of livestock watering works, subject to requirements that will minimize adverse effects on aquatic ecosystems.<\/p>\n Pending government review and approval, the proposed policies would be incorporated into new regulations later this year.<\/p>\n We invited you to share your thoughts about the proposed policies by leaving a comment below or sending an email to livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca<\/a> by February 16, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Livestock that graze on range land drink water directly from streams and other water bodies, as well as from off-stream watering systems such as a watering trough. Managing livestock watering by limiting access through riparian areas and keeping livestock out of streams helps to protect water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. Government released an intentions … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-drinking-water","category-stream-health","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}