Sharing and Protecting BC’s Water
Water is crucial to all life. It is the fundamental link between human societies and our environment. A changing climate is going to make protecting water and managing its use more important and more challenging at the same time. BC’s 100-year-old Water Act is failing to ensure that there is enough water in our streams and aquifers for fish and wildlife, and for drinking water, threatening our prosperity. BC’s government previously proposed a new Water Sustainability Act to correct these deficiencies, but entrenched interests are demanding priority access to large quantities of water and the government’s commitment to a new Act may be waning.
BC needs a new act that guarantees the environment and drinking water get water first, protects groundwater and other water sources, and applies equally to all industrial operations. Ninety-one per cent of British Columbians say fresh water is B.C.'s most precious resource and 86 per cent think fresh water is extremely important to our prosperity and quality of life.
