Everyone has the right to clean, safe water. When water is at risk of contamination it threatens not only the health of every individual, but the ecosystem and the economy as well. All of us – individuals, government, business and industry have a responsibility to keep our water free from toxins and to protect our drinking water for ourselves and future generations. People can start taking an active role in protecting their community’s drinking water sources by understanding where their drinking water comes from and its quality, by conserving the amount of water they use and by leaning ways to prevent their water supply from being contaminated.

 

The Source Protection Plan lays out how the protection of drinking water sources will be managed and implemented in the source protection area. This Plan will examine drinking water sources, identify potential sources of contamination and determine how to reduce or eliminate these potential threats.

 

Major steps would be identifying vulnerable areas including present and future groundwater areas including present and future groundwater and surface water municipal supplies, areas where large regional aquifers are being recharged and where these are vulnerable to contamination. Water budgets would be carried out to measure how much water exists both above and below ground, how it moves and how much water the community uses to identify potential water shortages.