Drinking Source Water Protection

The web-based discussion forum for the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley on Drinking Water Source Protection Region is one avenue created for informed dialogue and to share ideas, knowledge and questions about drinking water source protection planning in your source protection areas.

We hope you enjoy respectful dialogue and informed exchanges of information through this technological innovation, the virtual coffee shop.

• Messages posted to the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley drinking water source protection site must be focused on issues related to drinking water source protection planning.
• All messages should concentrate on facts and reason-based questions, positions or information related to protection of our drinking water sources.
• Users should review messages to ensure they are:
  • Polite
  • Respectful of other users
  • Respectful of the rights of others to state their opinions
  • Not repetitive of questions or concerns already raised and responded to
• Posted messages should deal with a single issue and be succinct in nature.
• The forum may not be used to promote outside or personal or commercial interests.
• Messages should not deal with partisan politics or issues of religion.
• Users can briefly refer to other written documents but should not lift long passages of text from a document.
• When a short excerpt is used it should be referenced to the source, acknowledging the source of that information.

• ‘Give others the benefit of the doubt.’
• ‘Think before you send’

- Please, never post a message if you are upset or emotional – take the time to reflect and post the message when you are ready to state your considered opinion in a dispassionate manner.

If you feel a user of the drinking water source protection forum is posting messages that are not appropriate, or not consistent with the Rules for Use, please inform us at info@www.sourcewaterinfo.on.ca

If your message has been found inappropriate or offensive by someone else, please post a message apologizing and withdraw your remarks or clarify them if it is likely that clarification will help mitigate the original offence taken.

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