Alberta Water Safety


WATER SAFETY IN ALBERTA

Who ensures Alberta’s drinking water is safe? Alberta Environment regulates water treatment using the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act as its guide. Alberta Environment works with Alberta Health and Wellness and regional health authorities to ensure drinking water quality. Alberta’s treatment performance standards are the most stringent in Canada.

Alberta law requires water from treatment facilities meet the standards indicated in Health Canada’s Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality.

Did you know …

  • Alberta is the only province in Canada requiring surface water to be filtered and disinfected before people consume it?
  • Alberta is only one of two provinces whose drinking water must meet health-related concentration limits for substances like lead and arsenic?
  • Alberta is the only province where microbial quality is based on reduction of protozoa as well as reduction of bacteria?
  • Alberta requires that all treatment plants (regardless of size) meet the same performance and measurement standards?
  • Every treatment plant in Alberta is operated by a certified professional?