Learn how to protect your investment and have more time to enjoy your waterfront setting. The authors share their personal experiences of living by water in B.C. in this user-friendly handbook. It includes informative tips, advice, helpful B.C. references, illustrations and stories to assist you with the unique challenges of waterfront living. This handbook for waterfront living includes the following topics: shoreline erosion Ÿnative plants on the shoreline Ÿprotecting your water quality Ÿseptic and water systems Ÿtips for purchasers Ÿbuilding by water Ÿdocks Ÿcaring for yards and gardens Ÿrecreation and boating Ÿ co-existing with wildlife. "On the Living Edge" has been written for both permanent shoreline residents and seasonal cottagers along all types of shorelines: marine and freshwater, urban and rural. This includes property bordering on the ocean, an estuary, lake, reservoir, or river. It also includes properties which contain a stream, pond, canal, wetland, or drainage ditch.