Toronto and Ottawa have very interesting and very divergent experiences with that relationship. If someone is interested I can see if I can dig up an article someone wrote about it
I would love to read about that, sounds very interesting.
I’ll comment again if I find the other one. I’m sure I have it saved somewhere 😅
TL;DR: Ottawa would have sooner built an aqueduct from 31-Mile Lake than build a sewage plant. They didn’t get one until the 1960s. Toronto built it’s first (and poorly working) municipal plant in 1912 (I think?). The chief bacteriologist in Ottawa was just like, throw some chlorine at the water, you will be fine. 😬
I would love to read about that, sounds very interesting.
I’m having trouble finding the one I’m thinking about (it was written for some industry org, maybe OWWA or OPWA?
Anyways, here is a comprehensive history, but it’s 181 pages: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2273818
I’ll comment again if I find the other one. I’m sure I have it saved somewhere 😅
TL;DR: Ottawa would have sooner built an aqueduct from 31-Mile Lake than build a sewage plant. They didn’t get one until the 1960s. Toronto built it’s first (and poorly working) municipal plant in 1912 (I think?). The chief bacteriologist in Ottawa was just like, throw some chlorine at the water, you will be fine. 😬