British Columbia's Water Sustainability Act, set to come into force in 2015, represents the long overdue modernization of the Water Act. It claims improvements in protecting stream health and aquatic environments, regulating water use in times of scarcity, and measuring and reporting large-scale water use, among other areas. Under the new Act, commercial water bottling companies would be regulated and required to pay water fees to use groundwater, but critics say the WSA does not go far enough to protect water from being exploited by industry.