Library

This section of the website contains links to non-OHI documents on freshwater and headwaters. Please let us know if any links are broken or contact us to suggest an addition.

General

Where Rivers are Born: The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands, American Rivers and Sierra Club, February, 2007               Click to access this 2.5 Mb pdf

Annual Reports, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

The OHI highly recommends the annual reports of the ECO as a source of both high-level synthesis of major environmental initiatives in Ontario and analyses on the strengths and weaknesses of these initiatives, many of which are listed separately in the next section. Particular items of interest include:

• 2004-2005, with sections on the Provincial Policy Statement, Great Lakes Water Resource Agreements, and Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy;
• 2005-2006, with sections on the Great Lakes, The Clean water Act, and impacts of both aging landfills and sand and gravel extraction;
• 2006-2007, which identifies four irreconcilable priorities in which planning efforts must be significantly refocused if Ontario is to begin creating truly sustainable urban and rural communities in southern Ontario, as well as an analysis of land use and resource allocation decisions in the boreal north; and,
• 2007-2008,  with sections on drought in Ontario, protected areas planning, Ontario’s biodiversity strategy, agreements respecting the Great Lakes, and several sections on permits to take water and groundwater protection.

The ECO’s Annual Reports can be found here.

Ontario Government

Provincial Policy Statement - Link to PPS

Groundwater Studies in Ontario: Mapping a hidden treasure Ministry of the Environment, Government of Ontario, March 2004 - Link to 4197e01.pdf

Watershed-based Source Protection Planning
Science-based Decision-making for Protecting Ontario’s Drinking Water Resources: A Threats Assessment Framework, Technical Experts Committee, Report to the Minister of the Environment, November, 2004, Government of Ontario  - Link to 4935e.pdf