As enforced in by-laws, the Ontario Building Code Act, and the Ontario Safe Drinking Water Act, everyone has a hand in water protection in Ontario!

Purveyors are responsible for providing safe, potable water to the final connection of a distribution system for all consumers of supplied potable water.

Consumers are responsible to ensure that their private water systems remain pollutant and contaminant-free, and that the health & safety of people using and consuming that water is protected.

Consumers and Purveyors are both responsible to ensure that nothing can enter the distribution system that may pollute or contaminate that same water.

Cross Connection Control Specialists are the final line of defense. Purveyors and Consumers alike must rely on the certified technicians which they are required to hire, these technicians are responsible for the assessment of cross connections, the implementation of recognized backflow prevention practices and most important, the responsibility of accurate report creation as well as the organized method of record keeping policies.

Every by-law is unique, they all provide backflow prevention requirements. They all state there shall be no cross connections. They all refer to the CSA B64 standard and they all require O.W.W.A. certified technicians.