Water-Related Acts

Question 1

What Act governs water quantity and quality for surface and ground water?

Answer 1

Ontario Water Resources Act
– Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks

[we are keeping track of our resources in water, both the quantity and quality of it]

Question 2

What does the court need to show under the Fisheries Act?

Answer 2

That there was a deleterious substance

(not how much, or toxicity, ordid it kill anything… but that they dumped deleterious substance).

Question 3

What Act is primarily responsible for pollution control?

Answer 3

Environmental Protection Act

Question 4

What act was Initiated after Walkerton, what is it about, and under which Ministry?

Answer 4

Safe Drinking Water Act

• Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and parks
• how municipal drinking water systems are operated

Question 5

What does the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act do, and what Ministry are they under?

Answer 5

• Protects province’s surface water resources
• Prevent people from completely destroying natural habitat with boathouses, docs, etc.
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Question 6

What does the Nutrient Management Act do?

Answer 6

• Provides standards for nutrient storage and how nutrients are applied to farms

Question 7

What Act empowers the province to manage construction and operation of dams?

Answer 7

Public Lands Act

Question 8

What does the Sustainable Water and Wastewater Systems Act do?

Answer 8

Sets a framework for implementing full cost accounting for using water

Question 9

What 2 pieces of legislation in Ontario govern the PROCESSES by which water-related projects are revived and approved?

Answer 9

1. Environmental Assessment Act

2. Environmental Bill of Rights

Question 10

***The following are all types of what?

• Wellhead protection area (WHPA)
• Intake Protection Zone (IPZ)
• Highly Vulnerable Aquifer (VHA ?)
• Significant Groundwater Recharge Area (SGRA)

Answer 10

Vulnerable Areas