Source Protection

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Home > Your Environment > Drinking Water > Source Protection

Drinking Water Source Protection

Protecting our water sources

The watersheds of the southern interior are where we live, work, and play. They are also the source of the water we drink. Threats posed by activities in our watersheds need to be identified and managed. Keys to managing threats to drinking water are:

land-use practices that support natural watershed function, and
a focus on activities occurring in sensitive areas

A multiple-barrier approach to source water protection is optimal so that if one barrier under-performs others can compensate.

Collecting information

Locate and characterize drinking water sources for effective emergency response
Identify sensitive areas for all larger water systems.
Register public and private water systems to ensure they are receiving the highest level of protection
Review How Safe is Your Water? brochure

Support healthy land-use practices

Review The Future of Your Neighbourhood
Southern Interior Regional Drinking Water Team 2010-11 Annual Report
Promote healthy, evidence based land-use management
Administer the Drinking Water Protection Act including investigation of threats to drinking water

Interior Health region resources

Elk Valley Environmental Monitoring Committee 2015 Public Report

BC resources

Canada resources

We recognize and acknowledge that we are collectively gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the seven Interior Region First Nations, where we live, learn, collaborate and work together. This region is also home to 15 Chartered Métis Communities. It is with humility that we continue to strengthen our relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples across the Interior.

Interior Health is committed to the elimination of racism and to Cultural Safety and Humility in our facilities and the communities we serve. Read the Statement on Racism, from the Interior Health Board of Directors.