Who is the survey for?
The survey is for community drinking water suppliers within BC that draw water directly from a surface water or groundwater source. Community water suppliers provide drinking water to more than one connection to residential dwellings and are regulated under the Drinking Water Protection Act. There are many different types of community water suppliers, including municipalities and regional districts, utilities, water user’s communities, and improvement districts, stratas, mobile home parks, shared systems between neighbors and other independent systems.
What is the survey about? How does it work?
If this is you, we encourage you to take 10-20 minutes to fill out an initial survey and help us understand the state of drinking water supplies as we approach the dry season. Once you have completed the survey the first time, you do not need to fill out the survey again unless your water supply status or responses change.
When will the survey be open?
The survey is open now (June) until October 2026.
Take part now:
Complete the Drinking Water Supply Status Survey (Click Here)
- There is no option to save the survey and return to it, so please set aside enough time to complete it in one sitting (10-20 minutes).
- Not all questions are mandatory. Only questions with a red star need to be filled out. Please provide the information you have readily available.
- The survey will work on any web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) except for Internet Explorer.
- The survey can be accessed on mobile devices such as phones and tablets. If you open the survey on your mobile devices and it asks to use your location, please do not allow it to use your location to ensure built-in maps function properly.
- If multiple contacts for your drinking water system have received the invite to take part in the survey, please coordinate to provide a single survey response.
Sharing this information with the Province can help assess which communities are at risk of water supply issues, and where support may be needed this year and in the future.
Questions and concerns related to the survey can be sent to watersupplystatus@gov.bc.ca. Additional information and resources on drought in B.C. are available at www.gov.bc.ca/drought.