2022 rankings: The Fondation Rivières makes public the ranking of municipalities regarding the intensity of their wastewater spills discharged without treatment into Quebec's lakes and rivers.
Nearly 200 cities and municipalities do not correctly measure their wastewater discharged without treatment into Quebec's rivers.
Press release - We unveiled our 2020 Palmares last week and, unfortunately, a mistake was made in the manipulation of our powerful, but oh so complex, database. Our calculations in terms of spill intensity are rigorously accurate, but it's in expressing this intensity in terms of population numbers that we made the mistake.
Press release - For the second year in a row, Fondation Rivières has released a tool that lets you discover the list of municipalities that stand out in terms of the intensity of their wastewater discharges in 2020. It has also updated the interactive discharge map on its website with the new 2020 data, revealing that there were almost 53,000 wastewater discharges last year in Quebec.
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