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Originally Posted by Acajack
I'd disagree that Gatineau's water quality is terrible. It's perfectly fine and there is no tangible difference with Ottawa's. Boil water advisories are frequent but are almost always preventive and due to them being worry-warts about anything happening.
Yes we have water main breaks sometimes just like any other city with thousands of km of older pipes.
The main impact of not having water meters I already acknowledged, which is that it leads to lots of waste.
We also have lawn watering restrictions in the summer which cities like Ottawa do not have because the meters temper the enthusiasm of water wasters.
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Terrible might have been too strong of a word, but questionable might not be. The frequent boil water advisories might be the City being overly cautious, but it does indicate serious investments are needed.
What Gatineau does particularly well is garbage and recycling. Limiting the amount of garbage households can throw out, mandatory composting, multiple recycling centres accessible to the population for things that are not eligible for curb-side pickup. For environmentally conscious people, that's definitely a perk.