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Line 1: [[File:Multi-barrier-safe-drinking-water-co.jpg|thumb|500px|Ontario’s [https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c22 Clean Water Act, 2006] is the primary piece of legislation within the province to ensure that there is a multi-barrier approach to ensure not only clean and safe drinking water, but by ensuring usage is sustainable and protects lakes, rivers, wells and other major sources of freshwater for ~14.5 million residents (Photo Source: Conservation Ontario, 2016)<ref>Conservation Ontario. 2016. Protecting Our Sources of Drinking Water: Implementation of Source Protection Plans across Ontario. Written by: Chitra Gowda, 11 Oct. 2016. Accessed 27 May 2022: https://ijc.org/en/protecting-our-sources-drinking-water-implementation-source-protection-plans-across-ontario</ref>]]Line 12:
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[[File:Source Protection regions map.PNG|thumb|500px| Image of the 19 Source Protection Regions (SPRs) and Source Protection Areas (SPAs) in Ontario (Conservation Ontario, 2022)<ref>Conservation Ontario. 2022. Best Practices for Source Water Protection. Accessed 27 May 2022: https://conservationontario.ca/conservation-authorities/source-water-protection/</ref>.]]
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==Overview==
==Overview==
Spurred mainly by the [https://environmentaldefence.ca/2020/06/01/walkerton-tragedy-ontario-new-water-crisis/ Walkerton Tragedy] in May of 2000, where 2,500 residents of the town fell ill due to ingesting high levels of E.coli bacteria and 7 individuals died due to poor monitoring and maintenance of the drinking water system, the province (Scarfone, 2020)<ref>Scarfone, K. 2020. 20 years after the Walkerton Tragedy, Ontario could be setting itself up for a new water crisis. Safeguarding Freshwater. Environmental Defence. 1 June 2020. Accessed 26 May 2022. https://environmentaldefence.ca/2020/06/01/walkerton-tragedy-ontario-new-water-crisis/</ref> took major overhauling actions to ensure Ontarians drinking water was adequately protected.
Spurred mainly by the [https://environmentaldefence.ca/2020/06/01/walkerton-tragedy-ontario-new-water-crisis/ Walkerton Tragedy] in May of 2000, where 2,500 residents of the town fell ill due to ingesting high levels of E.coli bacteria and 7 individuals died due to poor monitoring and maintenance of the drinking water system, the province (Scarfone, 2020)<ref>Scarfone, K. 2020. 20 years after the Walkerton Tragedy, Ontario could be setting itself up for a new water crisis. Safeguarding Freshwater. Environmental Defence. 1 June 2020. Accessed 26 May 2022. https://environmentaldefence.ca/2020/06/01/walkerton-tragedy-ontario-new-water-crisis/</ref> took major overhauling actions to ensure Ontarians drinking water was adequately protected.
*'''Source Protection Region (SPR)''': Encompass one or more source protection areas (ex. Credit Valley-Toronto and Region-Central Lake or simply the CTC Region).
*'''Source Protection Region (SPR)''': Encompass one or more source protection areas (ex. Credit Valley-Toronto and Region-Central Lake or simply the CTC Region).
*'''Source Protection Area (SPA)''': Smaller geographic areas generally based on the watershed boundaries of Ontario's 36 Conservation Authorities}}
*'''Source Protection Area (SPA)''': Smaller geographic areas generally based on the watershed boundaries of Ontario's 36 Conservation Authorities}}
[[File:Multi-barrier-safe-drinking-water-co.jpg|thumb|500px|Ontario’s [https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c22 Clean Water Act, 2006] is the primary piece of legislation within the province to ensure that there is a multi-barrier approach to ensure not only clean and safe drinking water, but by ensuring usage is sustainable and protects lakes, rivers, wells and other major sources of freshwater for ~14.5 million residents (Photo Source: Conservation Ontario, 2016)<ref>Conservation Ontario. 2016. Protecting Our Sources of Drinking Water: Implementation of Source Protection Plans across Ontario. Written by: Chitra Gowda, 11 Oct. 2016. Accessed 27 May 2022: https://ijc.org/en/protecting-our-sources-drinking-water-implementation-source-protection-plans-across-ontario</ref>]]
Under the Clean Water Act local multi-stakeholder source protection committees were developed for each region. Each committee is comprised on the region's leading researchers, professionals and technical personnel that help identify significant current and potential future threats to their local municipal drinking water sources. Their job is to regularly meet and develop preventative plans to address identified and theorized threats (Lake Erie Source Protection Region, 2022)<ref>Lake Erie Source Protection Region. 2022. The Clean Water Act. Accessed 26 May 2022. https://www.sourcewater.ca/en/how-it-works/The-Clean-Water-Act.aspx</ref>
Under the Clean Water Act local multi-stakeholder source protection committees were developed for each region. Each committee is comprised on the region's leading researchers, professionals and technical personnel that help identify significant current and potential future threats to their local municipal drinking water sources. Their job is to regularly meet and develop preventative plans to address identified and theorized threats (Lake Erie Source Protection Region, 2022)<ref>Lake Erie Source Protection Region. 2022. The Clean Water Act. Accessed 26 May 2022. https://www.sourcewater.ca/en/how-it-works/The-Clean-Water-Act.aspx</ref>