[All] Update on Waterloo Region Water Planning Initiatives

[John Jackson]

The next few months will be the time for GREN to make input on changes to
Waterloo Region¹s Water Supply Master Plan (WSMP) and Water Efficiency
Master Plan (WEMP). These plans are important to the work that GREN has been
conducting since our formation. Our water symposium at the Slit Barn last
June was an example of our educational activities on this.

The WSMP is the document that sets 2035 as the year by which we will need a
pipeline to Lake Erie. Our expectation is that, because water efficiency and
conservation has been having better results than expected, the timelines for
this pipeline will be extended from 2035 to 2051 or later. Per capita
residential water use in Waterloo Region has been reduced from 238 litres
per day in 2007 to 203 litres per day in 2013.

Water Supply Master Plan (WSMP): This is the plan that currently has the
Lake Erie pipeline in it as needed by 2035. The Region will be holding three
open houses next week to release their proposed new alternatives. The
sessions are: 
1. Dec 10 (5:30-7:30) at K-W Bilingual School, 600 Erb St., Waterloo;
2. Dec 11 (5-7) at Regional Headquarters, 150 Frederick St., Kitchener;
3. Dec 12 (5:30-7:30) St Benedict Catholic Secondary School, 50 Saginaw
Parkway. Cambridge. [You can cover both this and the GREN meeting that
evening on landuse planning changes. The program for the GREN meeting
doesn¹t start until 7.]

The Region plans to put the WSMP draft plan materials on their website about
a week after the open houses.

Water Efficiency Master Plan (WEMP): This draft plan will be released in
January with three open houses with public comment to be completed sometime
in March.

We¹ll keep you up-to-date on both of these.

John

-- 
John Jackson
17 Major Street
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
519-744-7503


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