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Almost 900 billion litres of raw sewage have been pumped into Canadian waterways since 2013

Almost 900 billion litres of raw sewage have been pumped into Canadian waterways since 2013

Canada's old-fashioned city sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into this country's waterways over five years, enough to fill up an Olympic-sized swimming pool more than 355,000 times. Data posted in early February also show that wastewater-treatment plants across the country failed tests of their water quality thousands of times between 2013 and 2018.