Under current legislation regarding B.C.’s ground water, an individual or company may extract up to 75 litres/second.

• without Provincial Environmental Assessment
• without complete mapping of the aquifer
• without knowledge of future recharge rate
• without licensing
• without fees
• without public consultation, unless re-zoning is necessary
• without responsibility to the surrounding environment
• without monitoring for volume
• without limit of hours per day
• without respect for seasonal and/or unseasonal levels
• without monitoring for environmental impacts
• without royalties
• without protection for domestic users, present or future
• without provision for potential effects of climate change

• 75 litres per second = 16.50 gallons per second
• 4,500 litres per minute  = 989.88 gallons per minute
• 270,000 litres per hour = 59,392.87 gallons per hour
• 6,480,000 litres per day = 1,425,428.95 gallons per day
• 2,365,200,000 litres per year =  520,281,566.20 gallons per year
• 4.546 litres  =  1 Canadian gallon