Living Water Smart

B.C.’s water is essential to our quality of life. Impacts of climate change, our growing population
and vibrant economy means that we need a different approach to water management.

Living Water Smart provides government’s vision for sustainable water stewardship. This vision will be achieved through actions and targets that include:

• Keeping water in mind when we develop our communities, protecting sources of drinking water and strengthening flood protection to adapt to climate change.
• Ensuring wetlands and waterways will be protected and rehabilitated and land activities will not negatively impact our water.
• Modernizing B.C.’s Water Laws to ensure adequate stream flows, ecosystem health, more community involvement, and protection of groundwater.
• Setting strong water efficiency targets and working with all sectors to reduce water consumption.
• Improving science and information so British Columbians can better prepare for the impacts of climate change.

It will take a collective effort to make this vision a reality. We must all work together to protect water sources, manage water demands, modernize water systems and infrastructure, and live water smart.