Perhaps that is a job for the provincial or federal funding. Jim Hinton, P. Eng. I have been active as a professional in the water environment for 30 years. Generally speaking Canadian water supplies are as good as anywhere in the world. We must therefore prevent problems by managing the complete water supply chain.
Modern governments seem to be incapable on managing complex issues like water supply.
Protection of the water source is paramount, yet we see little effective watershed management, there is inadequate control of farm practices, and regulation, policing and enforcement of industrial waste discharges are being weakened. At least in Ontario, ideology is replacing good management. The overnight privatization of laboratories, the dismantling of the provincial water operator training program, the weakening of the Ontario Clean Water Agency and its key role for small communities. Small communities no longer receive the generous provincial support that used to be available to recognize the higher unit costs for small populations. At a recent water convention in Toronto, Ontario Minister of the Environment Elizabeth Whitmer stated that a goal, of her government was to make Ontario the leading environmental jurisdiction in North America.