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How can we reach our 2020 Greenest City targets?

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  1. Educate consumers about soft water detergent usage

    Vancouver's water is softer (contains few or no calcium or magnesium ions) than water in other areas. Softer water requires less detergent when washing clothes or dishes to achieve the same cleaning effect. Residents should be made aware of this to reduce the amount of detergent used and flushed down the drain every day. Consumer education can be achieved by information sheets in libraries and community centres and/or through mandatory product labelling (e.g. information on detergent containers or stickers on new washing machines).

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  2. Sewage Treatment options

    There are efective natural ways to treat grey and sewage waters without dumping them into our enviroment without anything but primary treatment. One idea I read used water hyacinth to pureify the water, as the sewage runs though the ponds with the water hyacinth, the plant absorbes all of the waste products as well as any impurities, the result is pure water, yes you have to invest in holding ponds, but as the Hyacinth grow they consume CO2 reduing that green house gas, in fact the plants in the study I read were mulched and used to produce the gas…

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  3. water purification

    A lot of research is being done in large scale water purification using carbon nanotubes. Investigate and invest in changing over our water cleaning and filtration on tap water from harmful chlorine chemicals to cleaner filtration using carbon nanotube technology. Thus, making our clean drinking water even better than ever!

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    0 comments  ·  Improve water quality  ·  Admin →
    declined  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    The region has just completed commissioning a $600M filtration plant to filter our drinking water before delivering it to the city. It is unlikely that we will be investing any more money into drinking water filtration technologies for some time.

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