1. Municipal Consent: I support this change, but the consent does not extend to smaller takings. I believe the municipality should have authority over all water takings.
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The Ontario Golf Superintendents' Association is concerned that the priorities of water use could potentially limit/restrict golf courses from water taking in areas where drinking water/agricultural allocations take priority.
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To protect the long-term sustainability of surface water and groundwater and to ensure these important resources are responsibly managed and safeguarded now and for future generations, I have simple comment.
1. Keep the water in the ground.
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The policy study and report on how to better manage Ontario’s water appears to make good sense from a groundwater management perspective. However, Ontarians understand that for any water taking there are environmental trade-offs, and societal values are important, particularly about bottled water.
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The Ontario Ground Water Association's position on Updating Ontario's Water Quantity Management Framework is attached in letter form which provides responses to the Appendix 1 Discussion Questions for each Goal/Proposal as published for the July 17th, 2020 Working Group Meeting.
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I am a resident of Elora and I feel it is very important for our area to purchase this Middlebrook extraction site - our area is bursting at the seams with development and water will be sorely needed in upcoming years - there has been for a great length of time water extracted from the site in Guelp
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I am very concerned about the push to allow companies to extract water from Canadian sources for bottling. Canada's water should not be for sale. As you know, I'm sure, plastic water bottles occupy a huge amount of space in our landfill sites. Water is needed for local and necessary reasons, eg.
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RE: Registry Number 019-1340
The MECP is on the right track with municipalities having their rightful say, setting priorities for water use, transparency and taking a regional perspective.
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Water is the source of life and must be managed to support the needs of the local community first. As such it is critical that all water taking permits must first have the approval of the local municipality.
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As a resident of Centre Wellington (Elora), I am aware that our future natural water supply is at significant risk so I vehemently disagree with allowing anyone to take our water for commercial use or profit for example bottling to sell.
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Municipalities must have a say in this. The host Municipality must have veto power as they are accountable to the citizens to ensure we are able to continue to live. Corporations cannot have autonomy to jeopardize the welfare of those impacted by local water supplies.
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