Windsor's Report on the State of the Environment

The first Report on the State of the Environment in Windsor established baseline environmental indicators in 2007 for measurement in future years. Some interesting numbers are:

711 litres of wastewater treated per person per day

685 litres of drinking water used per person per day

274 days when air quality was good or very good

47.7 km of bike lanes

65,000-75,000 trees maintained by the city

Some of the concerns that have been raised by this report is that although our number of walking paths and bike trails have increased over the last few years, we are still below the levels of other cities, we waste too much water and we need to plant more trees.

The City of Windsor plans to use the data collected, which provide for 28 benchmark statistics, and do comparisons every 4 years to determine if we as a community are improving and meeting our goals.

Go to: http://www.citywindsor.ca/002881.asp to read the full report.

We can all do our part in softening our environmental footprint.

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