According to the report, Lake Ontario receives 38 per cent of the province’s sewage-plant effluent, while the Ottawa River gets 9 per cent. Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller released his annual report to the Ontario Legislature on Thursday, pointing to outdated sewage systems as the root cause for water pollution across the province.
The same province that saw seven people die and more than 2,000 fall ill in the tainted-water incident in Walkerton still has polluted water passing untreated into its lakes and rivers, a new report by Ontario’s Environmental watchdog says.
Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller released his annual report to the Ontario Legislature on Thursday, pointing to outdated sewage systems as the root cause for water pollution across the province. “Sewage treatment is a largely invisible basic service that most Ontarians spend little time worrying about, confident that proper … infrastructure is in place and well managed, and that inadequate sewage treatment is primarily a problem of distant developing countries,