There is nothing more…

There is nothing more precious or important than clean drinking water. The Clean Water Act was introduced in 2006 as a response to the Walkerton Tragedy, when contamination of a drinking water source by E.coli resulted in 7 deaths and thousands falling ill in Walkerton, Ontario. After Walkerton, the province acted to protect drinking water with a multi-barrier approach. Source protection plans now cover 97% of our drinking water in Ontario, and there are 38 local committees who have created plans to protect local drinking water. We now have some of the strongest protections for drinking water in the world.
Bill 66 allows previously unthinkable exemptions to these source protection plans. Ignoring the locally developed protection plans could open the door to another Walkerton tragedy.