* Combined sewer overflows.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2017. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Canada's treatment of municipal wastewater by province 2017
This statistic shows the distribution of municipal wastewater discharge treatment in Canada as of 2017, broken down by province. As of that year, around 36.6 percent of the municipal wastewater in Newfoundland and Labrador was discharged without any treatment. According to the source, this figure include the overflows from the combined sewer system directly to the water bodies.
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