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Today, we\u2019ve released a Legislative Proposal for a new Water Sustainability Act<\/a>. A key commitment of government, the Water Sustainability Act responds to B.C.\u2019s growing population, expanding development and changing climate. The proposed new Act would update and replace the existing Water Act and help ensure that our water stays healthy and secure for future generations.<\/p>\n Over the past four years we\u2019ve consulted with citizens, First Nations, industry groups, environmental groups, local governments\u2014everyone who has an interest in our water resource. British Columbians have sent us\u00a0thousands of submissions<\/a>\u2014you\u2019ve offered us some great ideas covering everything from how to protect groundwater to how to ensure our streams and lakes stay healthy.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve considered all of your ideas and put together a proposal for a new Water Sustainability Act, to be introduced in the spring of 2014. Now, I\u2019m inviting you to offer your feedback one last time, so we can make sure our new water legislation really does serve your needs, and the needs of future generations. Your feedback will help us refine our legislative proposals, and also help guide us as we implement the new act in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n Have a look through the\u00a0Legislative Proposal<\/a>, the Overview<\/a>\u00a0or check out what others have been saying<\/a>. Over the next four weeks, I\u2019ll be interested in hearing your feedback and what\u2019s most important to you.<\/p>\n Thanks for taking the time to help us modernize the rules around our most precious natural resource.<\/p>\n Mary Polak<\/p>\n Minister of Environment<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome, and thank you for visiting our new website. Today, we\u2019ve released a Legislative Proposal for a new Water Sustainability Act. A key commitment of government, the Water Sustainability Act responds to B.C.\u2019s growing population, expanding development and changing climate. The proposed new Act would update and replace the existing Water Act and help ensure … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}