C-6.2 - Act to affirm the collective nature of water resources and to promote better governance of water and associated environments

Updated to 10 January 2020

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chapter C-6.2

Act to affirm the collective nature of water resources and to promote better governance of water and associated environments

AS water is indispensable to life and is a vulnerable and exhaustible resource;

AS water resources are part of the common heritage of the Québec nation, and it is important to preserve water and improve water management to meet the needs of present and future generations;

AS water is for everyone’s use and must be accessible in the quantity and quality required to meet every individual’s essential needs;

AS the environments associated with water resources make a fundamental contribution, particularly with regard to the quality and quantity of water, the conservation of biodiversity and the fight against climate change;

AS it is appropriate to ensure the conservation of such environments, whether to preserve, protect, sustainably use or restore them, or to create new ones;

AS it is appropriate to set the objective of no net loss of such environments;

AS the State, as custodian of the interests of the nation in water resources, must be vested with the powers required to protect and manage those resources;

AS it is important to promote integrated management of water resources and the environments associated with them in keeping with the principle of sustainable development and considering the support capacity of the wetlands and bodies of water concerned and their watersheds;

AS the role played by regional county municipalities in land use and in identifying the environments associated with water resources in their territories is fundamental;

THE PARLIAMENT OF QUÉBEC ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:

2009, c. 21; 2017, c. 14, ss. 1 and 2.

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