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An Ontario Clean Water Agency hybrid vehicle. OCWA was created in 1993 by the NDP government of Premier Bob Rae under the Ontario Capital Investment Plan Act [1] and initially took over provincial ownership of 153 water-treatment plants and 77 sewage-treatment facilities. It also operated 116 municipally owned water and sewage facilities. [2]
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The Ministry of the Environment was originally established as a portfolio in the Executive Council of Ontario (or provincial cabinet) in 1972.. The ministry was merged with the Ministry of Energy to form the Ministry of Environment and Energy from 1993 to 1997, and briefly again in 2002, before being split back up again.
A conservation authority is a local, community-based natural resource management agency [1] based in Ontario, Canada.Conservation authorities represent groupings of municipalities on a watershed basis and work in partnership with other agencies to carry out natural resource management activities within their respective watersheds, on behalf of their member municipalities and the Province of ...
Water extraction (also known as water withdrawal, water abstraction, and water intake) is the process of taking water from any source, either temporarily or permanently, for flood control or to obtain water for, for example, irrigation. [1] [2] The extracted water could also be used as drinking water after suitable treatment.
The Act also requires use of best management practices for a wide range of other water discharges including nonpoint source pollution. [20] Thermal pollution discharges are regulated under section 316(a) of the CWA. [21] NPDES permits include effluent limitations on water temperature to protect the biotic life supported by a water body. A ...
The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO; French: Commissaire à l’environnement de l’Ontario) was a non-partisan officer of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario charged with upholding the province's Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR).
Basic outline - Discharge consents are required by the Environment Agency from companies who ‘discharge sewage or trade effluent directly into surface water, such as rivers, streams, canals, groundwater or the sea’. Consents are set and enforced on an individual basis with regard to quality of the water source and the surrounding catchment.