Toronto’s Water Efficiency Plan

Toronto’s Water Efficiency Plan

Did you know that in the City of Toronto, the average residential water use is about 253 litres per person per day? With every litre of water pumped weighing 1 kilogram, that’s a tonne of water needed for a family of four each day. Compare that with the 1.23 billion litres per day of water that must be supplied to all residents and businesses in the city. With a population of 2.59 million residents, that amounts to 77 million toilet flushes a day.

At our present rate of water consumption, and taking population and employment growth into account, residents and businesses in the City of Toronto will need so much more water in the future that production capacity will have to increase. The cost of this expansion would be hundreds of millions of dollars.

So the City of Toronto has developed a comprehensive Water Efficiency Plan that allows us to reduce current water use to accommodate the population and employment growth at one-third the cost of infrastructure expansion. The plan, which will be implemented, on a City-wide basis over the next 10 years, contains a detailed implementation schedule with a set of sector specific water efficiency measures to help reduce water use, water loss, and reduce wastewater flows in the most cost-effective way.

You can review the Water Efficiency Plan online. Click below to read the chapters of the plan in PDF file format. Or visit one of the libraries listed below to view the plan.

http://www.toronto.ca/watereff/plan.htm

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