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[[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>]]
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==Source Water Protection In Ontario==
==Source Water Protection In Ontario==
The [https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c22 Clean Water Act] (Government of Ontario, 2021)<ref name="example1">Government of Ontario. 2021. Source protection. Environment and Energy - Drinking Water. 13 October 2021. Accessed: 26 May 2022. https://www.ontario.ca/page/source-protection#section-0</ref> requires municipalities to protect their drinking water sources and supplies through prevention by developing collaborative, watershed-based source water protection plans.
The [https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c22 Clean Water Act] (Government of Ontario, 2021)<ref name="example1">Government of Ontario. 2021. Source protection. Environment and Energy - Drinking Water. 13 October 2021. Accessed: 26 May 2022. https://www.ontario.ca/page/source-protection#section-0</ref> requires municipalities to protect their drinking water sources and supplies through prevention by developing collaborative, watershed-based source water protection plans.
[[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 protecting drinking water sources and ensuring usage is sustainable (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>]]
{{textbox|The Clean Water Act defines source water protection ''areas'' and source water protection ''regions'' as follows:
{{textbox|The Clean Water Act defines source water protection ''areas'' and source water protection ''regions'' as follows:
*'''Source Protection Region (SPR)''': Encompass one or more source protection areas (e.g., Credit Valley-Toronto and Region-Central Lake Ontario, or "CTC" Region).
*'''Source Protection Region (SPR)''': Encompass one or more source protection areas (e.g., Credit Valley-Toronto and Region-Central Lake Ontario, or "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}}
Under the Clean Water Act local multi-stakeholder source protection committees have been developed for each source water protection area or 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 have been developed for each source water protection area or 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>