Toronto 2025: Upgrades needed at water treatment plant as city grows

About 10 swimming pools worth of wastewater pass through the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant every hour.

While thats a lot of sewage, that number could be far higher by 2025, when the citys population could exceeed 6.5 million.

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Frank Quarisa, Torontos wastewater director, said the city knows there will be a lot more toilets flushing in its future, and so almost every part of the Beaches-area mega-facility is set to be improved in the coming years.

The CBCs Natalie Kalata got a tour of the plant, the citys largest, to learn more about the citys plans.

For more on the challenges that facility, and the city is facing when it comes to increased growth, check out the video above.