H2Ontario - Version 2.0 - POLIS Water Sustainability Project

Provide Leadership, Direction and AccountabilityPriority 3: Measuring ProgressMeasuring and tracking the progress of the strategy is essential for ensuring accountability andenabling the strategy to adapt to changing societal and ecological contexts and new opportunities.Requiring major water use sectors to report progress against their own water conservation andefficiency targets, performance measures, and plans would be an important component of thereporting process. To ensure transparency, reporting should be available for public review. Thepotential for inaccuracies associated with self-reporting water use reductions should be addressedthrough actions such as independent auditing.Action 7: Annual ReportingThe Chief Water Conservation Officer produces a publicly available, annual report that summarizes progressmade against targets and plans, including:• The results of annual Water Conservation Team reports on progress against targets and plans.• Addressing the nature of ongoing barriers to better water conservation and efficiency including a reviewof existing policies.• Adapting plans, actions and policies to changing social, ecological and technical needs and opportunities.• Validating the information provided by permit holders, for example by undertaking random independentwater audits, to verify the reported progress in each sector.H2Ontario: A Blueprint for a Comprehensive - 20 -Water Conservation & Efficiency Strategy