The Clean Water Act ensures that communities can identify potential risks to their drinking water supplies, and take actions to reduce these risks.  It brings members of the public together with:

• municipalities
• conservation authorities
• industry and business
• community groups
• farmers and landowners

to meet common goals to keep Ontario’s drinking water safe.

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Learn more about the act
Fact sheets
News Release and Backgrounder
Technical bulletins
Legislation and regulations

The Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program
Are you looking to protect your local sources of drinking water?  Do you live near a municipal well or intake? 

The Clean Water Act has established a funding program to help you take action to protect your municipality’s drinking water sources. And, you can save money while doing it. Whether you are a farmer, landowner, or a small or medium business, this funding program can help you help your community. This is what good stewardship is all about.

Apply for funding now
Find out how you can get funds to carry out:

• education and outreach in your community through local events that promote the Clean Water Act and this stewardship program
• fact sheet
• how to apply
• special projects to protect your drinking water sources
• fact sheet
• how to apply

You can also get funds to do projects such as:

• upgrade and repair your septic system
• upgrade and decommission your well
• build buffers to prevent soil erosion and contamination runoff, manage manure and improve your barn
• carry out pollution prevention reviews
• protect land around your municipal wells and intakes

Are you interested in becoming a program administrator for these projects?
Who can apply?

• Any body that administers or proposes to administer an incentive program related to the protection of municipal drinking water sources.
• how to apply (coming soon)

Learn more about the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program
News Release announcing the program
Advisory Panel appointed by the Premier McGuinty to develop the program
The Advisory Panel’s Report on best practices for stewardship