Is Quebec City Tap Water Safe To Drink?

Yes, tap water is drinkable.

Tap Safe includes data from many publicly available sources, including the WHO (World Health Organization), CDC (Center for Disease Control), and user submitted databases, but unfortunately there's not enough data about Quebec City.

To see user submitted ratings of the water quality for Canada, see the "User Submitted Ratings" box on this page.

Tap water in Quebec City, Canada, is safe to drink. The drinking water in Quebec is excellent. However, water travels a long way before entering your tap, and water may pick up unwanted additions onward. Water problems are unusual in Quebec than in other cities across Canada.

Canada holds the world’s most extensive freshwater resources, with 8% of the world index. Quebec has 3% of the planet’s freshwater on its region, providing it 13 times more renewable freshwater per resident than the United States. Quebec is using only 0.5% of its accessible renewable freshwater, contrasted to 18.9% in the U.S. Suitable use of this renewable resource not influencing Quebec’s water reserves.

Source of Water in Quebec City, Canada

The primary source of tap water in Quebec City is from surface water. And some portion is form groundwater. The St. Lawrence River is the source of Longueuil’s drinking water. To fulfill industry, businesses, and homes, Ville de Longueuil manages three water treatment plants. After water treatment, they are storing water to one of the five immense reservoirs. And will be distributed through an impressive network of pumps and water mains. Lastly, they collect water from a network of sewers. Water will be treated before returning to the river, which was drawn.

An essential and vital source for about a quarter of all Canadians is groundwater. It is their single-origin of water for drinking and washing, farming, and manufacturing. Indeed, for all their daily water needs. Some thought that groundwater flows through underground rivers or that it collects in underground lakes. Groundwater does not confine to only a few channels or depressions in the same way that surface water did concentrate in streams and lakes. Instead, it exists almost everywhere underground. It can be found underground in the spaces between particles of rock and soil, or crevices and cracks in the foundation.

Other links:

• Plan your Vacation to Québec City
• Contaminants in Drinking Water