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The Municipal Water Demand Management Primers describe practices that municipalities can implement to reduce the demand for water. A working group of municipal water managers developed the primers as part of the Grand River Watershed Water Management Plan.
Reducing water demand will help ensure sustainable water supplies in the future for communities, economies and the ecosystem. (All documents are PDFs).
- Primer 1 - Introduction, Securing your municipal supply for the long-term
- Primer 2 - Easing the flow: getting past water demand management barriers
- Primer 3 - Community outreach
- Primer 4 - Water metering
- Primer 5 - Outdoor water use bylaw
- Primer 6 - Rebates and capacity buybacks
- Primer 7 - Water loss control
- Primer 8 - Conservation pricing
- Primer 9 -New technologies and next generation water demand management strategies
- The Municipal Water Demand Management Matrix is a tool to evaluate the merits of each of the tools described in the primer series, based on municipal managers' experiences.
- Water Sustainability Planning - Key Resources for Municipalities provides links to current documents and websites identifying a wide range of tried and tested municipal water conservation best practices.
