Water and Well Regulations and Legislation

As part of the development of an irrigation strategy for regulations under the Water Act, Islanders were invited to provide comments regarding an Irrigation Strategy Discussion Document. All on-line comments that were received on the Irrigation...

Irrigation Strategy The Water Withdrawal Regulations have been amended to support the implementation of an Irrigation Strategy for Prince Edward Island. The Irrigation Strategy is designed to guide water usage both protecting a healthy aquatic...

The regulations require that all water and wastewater systems need to be registered with the Department and each system is assigned a unique registration number. This provides the department with important contact information to ensure system owners...

The Water Extraction Permitting Policy is the prime instrument utilized by the Department to make decisions around the use of both surface water and groundwater. The policy provides for sustainable protection of the province’s water resources and...