Further orders are pending.
As of July 21, the ministry had completed inspections of 241 of the province's 630 water treatment plants, and found deficiencies at 131 of them. The remaining plants will be inspected by the end of the year. I am determined to make water treatment facilities in the province conform to the highest standards. In cases were there is failure to comply with a field order, the ministry can take action up to and including prosecution under the Ontario Water Resources Act. For this first round of inspections, the ministry went to water treatment plants that had been found to have deficiencies in past inspections.