Manitoba Water Quality Standards, Objectives and Guidelines, first drafted in 2002, were updated July 4, 2011, and are set to be incorporated into the regulation. No response to public comments received in 2002 was ever provided. Nothing has been added to the public registry.

The public review process for the regulation was announced in a single paragraph of a July 4th press release, which dealt with numerous other announcement as well. Essentially the announcement of the review was lost in the press release. No other form of notification was undertaken by Manitoba Water Stewardship. Comments were due by August, 4 2011.

"In the middle of summer, with many people battling flood waters, clearly more could have been done to engage the public. Or the government could have avoided a summer review all together. At minimum the request for public comments deserved it's own press release or notification to stakeholders," stated Manitoba Wildlands director Gaile Whelan Enns.

Manitoba Wildlands found the links on the Water Stewardship department web pages for the regulation, and the 2002 Water Quality Standards do not work. This hampers any ability to provide comments, and means that review itself will need to be extended.