Category:Clean Water Act

From The Clean Water Act:

In October 2006, the Ontario government passed the Clean Water Act, 2006 (CWA) to protect existing and future sources of drinking water. The CWA stems from Justice O’Connor’s 2002 Report of the Walkerton Inquiry (Part II), which investigated the root causes of the tainted water tragedy that unfolded in the spring of 2000.

The stated purpose of the CWA is “to protect existing and future sources of drinking water.” The Act aims to achieve this goal by requiring each community to protect its own drinking water supplies by:

• identifying potential threats to its drinking water sources through the production of a science-based technical assessment report of its watershed; and
• developing and implementing source protection plans that are designed to reduce or eliminate the identified threats.

The text of the legislation can be found here.

Past ECO reporting on the the Clean Water Act is listed below.