8 | City of Winkler the water is being distributed also to the community during high demand. Botha says the facility is designed to treat 31 liters of water per second (the equivalent of 700,000 gallons of water per day). The plant is fully automated and monitored by system alarms as well as staff and a diesel-powered generator capable of powering two of the wells and the entire plant is there to mitigate any potential impacts resulting from power outage. Botha says the system is presently only running at 67 percent of its total capacity and therefore can respond to growth in Winkler over the course of its lifespan. Botha says studies are now underway to devise solutions for reducing the reject water flow produced by the water treatment plant, which amounts 30% of the raw water being treated. In terms of other major infrastructure initiatives, Botha’s department is also taking on a lot of the design, planning aspects and project engineering leading to a new waste water plant. While this initiative has thus far involved in raw sewage characterisation engaging the services of Professor Jan A. Oleszkiewicz in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Manitoba, complete process design and formulations in draw-
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