No Substitute For Water

Your water system is our priority.

Our aging water system needs maintenance and repairs to keep it running smoothly. We’ve started major improvements to ensure our growing city always has clean, reliable water. Here are some of the ways we’ll be upgrading our city water system over the next few years:

• Reline and replace the aging water and sewer pipes below our city with new, more durable pipes
• Expand our city’s water service network and increase the system’s capacity so we can effectively serve new neighbourhoods, including developments in North Regina
• Improve drainage and add new detention ponds to better prepare our city for overland and spring flooding
• Upgrade the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant to improve the reliability of our water
• Upgrade our wastewater treatment facility to better protect Wascana Creek and bring the facility up to new regulatory standards

The City will need to invest $2 billion in our water, wastewater and drainage system. While water rate increases cover some of these costs, the City is also working with Communities of Tomorrow, the federal and provincial governments and other municipalities to create infrastructure solutions and offset the cost.

For more information, see the 2012 budget highlights or the complete 2012 Water & Sewer Utility budget.

You can’t live without water. We’re making sure it’s always there.