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Overview
OF DRINKING WATER
AND WASTEWATER
MANAGEMENT
Staff involved in the management of drinking
water and wastewater are part of the
Environmental and Municipal Management
Services Division of the Water Security Agency.
These staff develop and deliver the Agency’s
drinking water, wastewater and liquid domestic
waste management regulatory programs and
associated services.
They develop legislation, regulation,
environmental code chapters, standards, guidance
and monitoring programs related to drinking
water, wastewater and surface water quality
management as a means to help protect human
health and environmental quality.
Annual reports to the public on the state of
provincial water and wastewater facilities is a
requirement of legislation.
The drinking water and wastewater management
program consists of the following work units:
Environmental Protection Services Section,
Engineering and Approvals Unit, Environmental
Services Section- North and South, and the
Environmental Information Section.
ensuring safe
drinking water
and protection of
human health
and the
environment
Environmental Protection
Services Section
n Develops standards, guidelines, protocols,
policy and legislation to ensure safe
drinking water, minimize environmental
effects of wastewater discharges and
maintain/improve uses of surface water
resources in Saskatchewan. This section
also participates on a number of
federal/provincial committees which
develop and coordinate water standards
across Canada, including the federalprovincial-territorial
Committee on
Drinking Water and the Canada-wide
Strategy on Municipal Waste Water
Effluents.
n Establishes operator certification standards
and liaises with the Operator Certification
Board and education providers as a means
to advance Government’s strategic
drinking water objectives and safe drinking
water
n Participates in development of raw water
protection initiatives, provides water
resource monitoring and guidance to
groups undertaking monitoring of
intensive livestock operations
n Permit issuance and review of pesticide
applications to water.
n Permit issuance and oversees the liquid
domestic sewage-hauling program.
Engineering Approvals Unit
n Reviews and approves waterworks/sewage
works construction projects to ensure
works meet sound engineering principles,
safe treatment technologies, production
and delivery of safe water and minimal
impact of wastewater discharges.
n Develops waterworks and sewage works
design standards and guidance as a means
to ensure effective and capable
infrastructure.
Environmental Services Section
n Operational permitting, inspection and
compliance of regulated waterworks and
sewage works in Saskatchewan to ensure
safe drinking water and protection of
human health and the environment.
n Delivery of effective preventative
compliance assurance functions by
Environmental Project Officers with
compliance related assistance from
Conservation Officers with the Ministry of
Environment
n Provision of technical advice in the event of
waterworks/sewage works system
emergencies, system failures or upsets to
protect human and environmental health
that these problems may represent. Issues
Precautionary Drinking Water Advisory
when situations or reports indicate a
potential problem with regulated drinking
water supply. Provides water and
wastewater treatment and system
management advice and response in the
event of a waterborne disease outbreak.
n Provides guidance to waterworks owners
to manage and resolve concerns in the
event of adverse water quality monitoring
results. Tracks and monitors compliance
with drinking water quality standards (e.g.:
bacteriological water quality, etc) that can
have direct, short or long term health
effects;
Environmental Information Section
n This section is responsible for the
management of the Agency’s drinking
water and wastewater information. The
Environmental Information Section
provides drinking water and wastewater
information for every municipal and
industrial waterworks and sewage works
regulated by the Water Security Agency via
the SaskH20.ca website
Need
Help?
The SWWA Office can help you with the following and all information can be found on
the SWWA website.
n Replacement certificates for SWWA courses taken
n Information on upcoming courses
n Annual Golf tournament information
n Conference and tradeshow information
n Job Postings
n Supplier information on products and services
n Membership
The SWWA office can help you with information on any of the above and you can contact
Calle Mondays to Thursdays from 8am till 4pm. The office is closed on all statutory
holidays.
Important things to know:
February 4 marks the date that conference registration for 2019 will be available online.
All credit card payments must be done online. A lot of time has been spent perfecting
the small bugs that come from making the website as user friendly as possible and we
appreciate the patience as we have worked through flaws in the system and are now
confident that we have seen the last of the bugs. Online payment is 100% secure on the
website. If you are unsure what your login information is please contact the SWWA office.
Conference Registrations being paid for by cheque must be done by printing the form
out and filling it out and sending along with the payment to the address on the form. The
SWWA is not responsible for payments not received or sent to a wrong address.
The SWWA office does not invoice, payment for events is due at the time of purchase.
Membership for the SWWA is in the name of the individual not the employer. If a person
attends the annual conference the membership for the following year is included in the
conference fee. Membership runs from January 1 to December 31 yearly.
Supplier memberships are in the name of the company. You can register up to 6 persons
with your company under the supplier membership. Supplier membership with SWWA
are ONLY with SWWA, if you wish to be part of the WCW membership you will need to
have an MSSA membership.
When signing up for an event online, the system cannot have the same email used for
more than one person, if there is not a separate email for a person or they do not have
an email simply choose the option does not have email and a system generated fake
email will be created to add the individual to the database.
got questions?
Simply go to the contact us portion of the website and enter your information and
you will receive a response during the noted office hours. Our office number is also
available if you prefer to call rather than email.