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Updating Ontario’s Water Quantity Management Framework

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Our access to drinking water, no matter who we are, or what creature we are, and where we live in this world, is a privilege and not a right. As such, and especially in what should be a forward-thinking area of this world, I expect our laws to protect us and our water supply. Read more

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August 2, 2020 Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks 135 St. Clair Ave West 1st Floor Toronto, ON Email: waterpolicy@ontario.ca To Whom This May Concern, Re: Comments on Provincial Update to Water Quantity Management Framework Read more

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Updating Ontario’s Water Quantity Management Framework Good Afternoon, I live in a small community of Shanty Bay adjacent to Lake Simcoe. We have been shocked and left in complete dismay in regards to a local Cannabis operation that has set up despite an Interim Control By-Law in place. Read more

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I am responding to the proposed new framework developed by your administration to manage water-taking in Ontario. I live in Guelph, Ontario and we are ENITRELY DEPENDANT on groundwater for the drinking water supply for the 130,000 plus citizens who live in this city. Read more

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At some point in the future the publics of the world will look back on plastic bottled water use. Surely they will see us as some sort of unthinking sheep to have tolerated this practice. They will have the ruined bottles to ponder. Read more

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Priorities: The Source Water Protection committees point out the stress on aquifers if all permits to take water pump at their daily maximums. A University of Victoria Professor who was part of an international study points out that aquifers recharge at 6 per cent every 50 years. Read more

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Thank you for considering this input on the proposal: Updating Ontario’s Water Quantity Management Framework. I have many comments, which I’ve attempted to organize under the questions posed in the report. Goal 1 Questions Read more

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Allowing municipalities to weigh in on water taking for water bottling is a small step but is definitely not adequate! Giving host municipalities “a say” in the permitting process – isn’t the same as granting them the right to refuse. Read more

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