Positive first steps in new BC water act

March 15, 2014

Castanet – March 15, 2014

The Okanagan Water Stewardship Council is reacting to Tuesday’s introduction of a new water act in the B.C. legislature.

The group saying that on first glance the updated legislation appears positive, but a council committee will now analyze it and respond officially to the province in the next few weeks.

At Thursday’s regular monthly council meeting in Kelowna, members discussed provisions of the new Water Sustainability Act which modernizes the 105-year-old Water Act.

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