Water Supply In Kitchener by Liam and Jacob
Where is it treated?
Water from the grand River goes through a treatment process at the Manheim Water Treatment Plant.
Kitchener Waste Water Treatment Plant
EcoWater Systems Kitchener INC.
Other information about water supply
Subtopic
Kitchener water is normally very hard because of lot's of minerals nd that is why houses use water softeners.
about 2 to 3 times harder than the Canadian average.
Where does it come from?
One of the areas Kitchener water comes from is the grand River which makes up around 20-25 percent of Kitchener drinking water.
The second area Kitchener's water comes from is groundwater wells which are located in many areas along the city.
How is it treated?
the water in Kitchener is treated well
The water is disinfected using a multi-barrier approach including filtration.
Threats to the water supply
water pollution comes from many sources like pecitisides and fertalizers that wash away from farms
sewage, sewage is a big problem cause if is gets into our water source then then can lead to virsus and diffrent bacteria's into our water source.
snow storage, since Kitchener gets a lot of snow they have a problem with that because the snow that gets melted contains lots of oils, salts, oils, and other heavy metals.