Permit To Take Water Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: The Permit to Take Water Database contains information collected from the Ministry of Environment's Permit to Take Water Program. Under this program the Ministry issues permits for water takings that exceed 50,000 Litres a day in accordance with the Ontario Water Resource Act. Companies or organizations who take over 50,000 litres of water/day from a lake, river, stream or groundwater source, must obtain a Permit to Take Water from the Ministry of the Environment –with a few exceptions. Permit holders are legally required to record how much water they take each day. Data includes: purpose location water source (e.g., ground or surface) maximum amount allowed per day permit number expiry date of the permit Please note that this data set contains an outlier. Use caution when interpreting data and results.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2014-01-14

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  Metadata was created using existing metadata supplied by the Ontario Ministry of Environment.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO 19115 Geographic Information Metadata

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Environment Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: economy

  Keywords:

  WATER, WATER MANAGEMENT, MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WATER TAKING, WATER SUPPLY, WATER USE, open data

  WATER, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER USE, WATER SUPPLIES

  Water, Eau, Water management, Gestion de l'eau, Water supply, Approvisionnement en eau, Water use, Utilisation de l'eau

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  The provincial Permit to Take Water Database is used to help ensure the fair sharing, conservation, and sustainable use of the water for all Ontarians by tracking the client's maximum water takings and the location of the permitted water sources.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: quarterly

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.83800

  East Longitude: -73.90100

  North Latitude: 57.32100

  South Latitude: 41.35800

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Ministry of Environment Toronto Ontario, Canada