Paradigmatic policy change or unintended subordination of rural autonomy: the case of source water protection in Ontario, Canada

Retallack, Matthew

doi:10.1007/s11077-020-09369-0

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“…Effective catchment management can help decrease the contamination of drinking water sources, potentially reducing treatment costs and reducing the production of treatment by-products and helping to minimise operational costs [2]. Source water protection is recognised as part of a multi-solution approach for the provision of safe drinking water with intervention at the source providing an early opportunity to contain potential risks, many of which are linked directly to land-use [1,3].…”

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Drinking Water Source Protection for Surface Water Abstractions: An Overview of the Group Water Scheme Sector in the Republic of Ireland

Rolston¹,

Linnane

2020

Water

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Source protection is part of a multi-solution approach for the provision of safe drinking water. In the Republic of Ireland, community-led Group Water Schemes (GWS) provide treated drinking water to approximately 69,000 rural households. Between 2009 and 2019, preliminary source protection assessments were undertaken for 70 GWS abstracting from surface water sources to provide physical catchment characterisation and untreated and treated water quality analysis. Catchment areas upstream of abstraction points varied in size, with 51.5% being less than 5 km2 and only 10.7% being larger than 100 km2. The majority (91%) of assessed GWS serve a population of less than 3000 people, and 94% supply less than 1500 m3 per day. Exceedances of the EU Drinking Water Regulations were recorded for 27 parameters, with the greatest number of exceedances due to total trihalomethanes followed by microbial contamination. The most frequent recommendation for improving GWS drinking water quality was associated with managing livestock access to local water bodies. Improving stakeholder engagement represented 38% of all recommendations made. Drinking water source protection measures and catchment-scale actions can be an additional model to assist in the delivery of Integrated Catchment Management and river basin management planning in the Republic of Ireland. For the GWS sector, challenges lie in securing resources to improve both source water and drinking water quality to deliver integrated catchment management plans for source protection.

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Drinking Water Source Protection for Surface Water Abstractions: An Overview of the Group Water Scheme Sector in the Republic of Ireland

Rolston¹,

Linnane

2020

Water

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The intersection of economic demand for ecosystem services and public policy: A watershed case study exploring implications for social-ecological resilience

Retallack¹

2021

Ecosystem Services

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Capacity for source water protection in Ontario’s privately-serviced rural areas

Minnes

Simpson

2020

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Paradigmatic policy change or unintended subordination of rural autonomy: the case of source water protection in Ontario, Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Drinking Water Source Protection for Surface Water Abstractions: An Overview of the Group Water Scheme Sector in the Republic of Ireland

Drinking Water Source Protection for Surface Water Abstractions: An Overview of the Group Water Scheme Sector in the Republic of Ireland

The intersection of economic demand for ecosystem services and public policy: A watershed case study exploring implications for social-ecological resilience

Capacity for source water protection in Ontario’s privately-serviced rural areas

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