The Rural Voice, 2001-05, Page 35aware of what they can do on their
own farms to lessen environmental
damage from their operation.
Still, she thinks there are still
problems, including the fact the
approach to water problems in
Ontario is too reactive and too much
based on regulation and enforcement.
"We are past the need to put all
our efforts into regulating water
quality at the end of the pipe in and
the end of the pipe out," she told the
Guelph meeting. .
"We recently estimated that it
would cost Ontario less than five per
cent of what it spends on water and
wastewater infrastructure to plan
well and protect what it has. I will
never know why it is so hard to re -
divert that small portion of our
resources to proactive planning and
avoiding problems."
To change things we must plan
locally and involve people, Minshall
says. A range of incentives is also
needed.
"In Ontario, water management is
not so much the management of
We must plan locally and
involve people
resource as it is the management of
human activity as it affects the
resource. Because human activity
includes actions by governments,
municipalities, industries and
landowners, water and watershed
management must be a co-operative
effort. Effective watershed planning
and management can prevent future
community water shortages and poor
water quality."
The initial expense of being
proactive will outweighed by savings
in the cost of future remediation,
Minshall says and the future
economic and environmental benefits
will be considerable.
However, she warns, southwestern
and south-central Ontario is probably
reaching a threshold in the intensity
of use its watershed can buffer. "We
must consider stronger proactive
planning at the watershed scale,
greater local involvement in planning
and taking action, and a wide range
of initiatives for people to become
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