Information sharing for source water protection in Ontario

Within each Source Protection Region and Area, the Act provides for the establishment of a Source Protection Committee, and defines the roles and responsibilities of these committees. [...] Questions explored the extent to which participants had adopted and adapted policies made available through the online tools; the benefits and limitations of sharing policies in this fashion; key influences on the policy development process; and the extent to which they had used the tools. [...] Adapting and Adopting Source Protection Policies One of the objectives of the evaluation was to determine the extent to which policies were shared between Source Protection Regions and Areas. [...] The results also suggest that reviewing the policies of other Source Protection Regions and Areas led to the development of new ideas. [...] They suggested that the number of Municipalities within Source Protection Regions and Area, whether there were Local or Regional Municipalities, and the number of Source Protection Authorities, were influential because this determined the number of implementing bodies and the complexity of the policy development process.