Climate Change & the Environment

Water and watersheds platforms

Here's what the 2026 BC Provincial Election parties are promising.

BC NDP
  • Provide $30M/year to the BC Watershed Security Fund

    "Strengthening watershed protection: $30 million per year to provide the BC Watershed Security Fund with sustainable, long-term funding and secure healthy watersheds and thriving communities for generations." — bcndp.ca, retrieved 2026-10-13

We don't have any BC Conservative policies on Water and watersheds.

BC Green
  • Release and implement BC's Watershed Security Strategy

    "Release and implement BC’s Watershed Security Strategy, developed with First Nations, with clear timelines, responsibilities, funding and annual public reporting on progress." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Establish regional watershed boards with First Nations, local governments, and local water users to coordinate watershed planning, monitoring, and restoration and proactive drought response

    "Establish and fund regional watershed boards with First Nations, local governments and local water users to coordinate watershed planning, monitoring, restoration and proactive drought response, with meaningful authority over decisions affecting the watersheds they steward. Ensure major activities that affect watershed health, including forestry and development, are incorporated into watershed planning and accountable to watershed objectives." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Use the tools within the Water Sustainability Act to their full potential where necessary

    "Use the tools within the Water Sustainability Act to their full potential where necessary, including critical environmental flow thresholds, responsive and flexible water license review and transfers, and water sustainability plans. Support communities and First Nations to lead these processes through locally driven monitoring and drought assessments, collective decision-making, planning guided by community objectives, and risk management strategies." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Develop flexible water-sharing and reallocation processes

    "Develop flexible water-sharing and reallocation processes that respect Indigenous rights, protect critical environmental flows and allow communities to respond to changing conditions before water shortages become emergencies." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Modernise industrial water rental rates so large industrial users pay a fair price for the water they use, using Quebec's rates as a minimum benchmark

    "Modernize industrial water rental rates so that large industrial users pay a fair price for the water they use. Bring rates into line with other Canadian provinces, using Quebec as a minimum benchmark, while protecting household, agricultural and small-business users." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

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  • Provide $75M/year for the Watershed Security Fund

    "Put the Watershed Security Fund on stable, long-term footing, with $75 million in annual funding supported by modernized industrial water rates. This will fund Indigenous and community-led watershed governance, monitoring, restoration, planning and local watershed jobs including work to support restoring the landscape’s ability to slow and store water, recharge aquifers, and cool waterways to protect aquatic life." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Require major licensed water users to meter and publicly report how much water they use

    "Require major licensed water users to meter and publicly report how much water they actually use, and expand surface-water and groundwater monitoring across the province. Use that information to produce public water budgets and regular state-of-the-watershed reporting." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Develop a provincial water storage strategy to help regions prepare for increasingly limited water supplies

    "Develop a provincial water storage strategy that helps regions prepare for increasingly limited water supplies, allowing them to continue to meet the needs of ecosystems, drinking water, and agriculture. This strategy should include guidance and resourcing to support the safe construction and management of community-scale storage, on-farm storage, and the natural storage capacity of the landscape." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

We don't have any OneBC policies on Water and watersheds.
We don't have any CentreBC policies on Water and watersheds.

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