The Water Sustainability Act will be the first upgrade to water legislation in BC for over 100 years.
Rosie Simms is the Water Law and Policy Coordinator for the Polis Project at Vancouver Island University says only non-domestic ground water users will be asked to licence their wells, with monitoring and reporting regulations expected in the next phase of the act.
There are approximately 20 thousand ground water users in BC expected to be phased in to the system through the new act.
