Water and wastewater
If you want to learn more about our city’s drinking water and wastewater treatment, the Water and Waste Department has a number of links you might be interested in.To start with, click on the link below to read about Winnipeg’s water system.
Winnipeg’s Water: Our Most Essential Resource
The Water & Waste home page contains all sorts of information you might find interesting, including drinking water quality reports and a description of some of the planned upgrades to our water treatment system.
If you want to learn about what you can do to conserve water, please visit our Water Conservation site.
The Department of Water Stewardship (Manitoba) has a lot of information as well, including the Manitoba Water Directory and Manitoba Water Protection Handbook.
And for a national view of water and water conservation, please visit Environment Canada’s Water Efficiency and Conservation page.
If you’d like to learn more about our sewage & drainage systems, the following links might be of interest. Your best bet is to start with the main page for sewage & drainage at Water & Waste. This page contains links to all sorts of useful information, including how to protect your home from basement flooding, how to drain your sump pump and how Winnipeg’s wastewater system works.
- Sewage & Drainage
- For details on the planned improvements to the City’s wastewater treatment system, please visit this page Wastewater improvement projects, Canadian Strategic Infrastructure Fund (CSIF)