Sierra Club Publishes Annual "Sewage Report Card"

Sierra Legal released its third National Sewage Report Card that evaluates how cities across Canada treat and manage their sewage. The report findings allege that Canada's coastal cities continue to lag behind the rest of the country, and highlights Canada's ineffective treatment of sewage issues.

The report evaluates twenty-two cities and assigns them a letter grade based on the quality of their sewage treatment as determined by various criteria including level of treatment, volume of raw sewage discharged and their progress since the last report in 1999.

CWWA has several concerns with this report, mainly that the information may not have been collected directly from municipalities and may have been taken out of context condemning municipalities that do not necessarily deserve the criticism.

Download the report visit the Sierra Club website.