More housing can now be built as region grows its water capacity

The Region of Waterloo has been working towards addressing a water capacity constraint over the last 10 months and today staff announced that more water is coming online thanks to these containers behind me here. That's good news for the development community and local residents. So the first part of this unit that came online in September is 20 liters per second which probably doesn't mean a lot to those of you at home but what it does mean is it's enough water for about 7 000 people in our community. So that's a significant amount of people who we now have water available so that they can come live here, build their homes and and that water is now available in the system. Between the 20 litres per second that was made available in September, we've allocated an additional 20 litres per second from the second stage of this project which will come in by end of year and an additional 10 litres per second earlier this year. So that's 50 litres per second that is available which is about 28,000 people worth so that's a lot of capacity that's a lot of people coming to this community it's about as 80% of the amount of people we expect to come here over the next five years so just in this year alone we've been able to bring on enough water to provide for 80% of the people we expect to come and live in the region so that to me is a significant milestone we've been working with their area municipalities who are now able to proceed forward with the development applications that they're getting in and able to approve those.