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^1.

Task Force on a Canadian Information System for the Environment, 2001, Sharing Environmental Decisions: Executive Summary and Recommendations: Final Report of the Task Force on a Canadian Information System for the Environment, Ottawa.

^2.

Excluding Prince Edward Island, which had no census metropolitan areas in the 2006 Census.

^3.

Saint John Water, September 21^st, 2009.

^4.

Canadian Medical Association, 2008, Investigative report: 1766 boil-water advisories now in place across Canada, CMAJ, May 6, 178(10):1261, http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/178/10/1261.pdf (accessed August 25, 2009).

^5.

Ibid.

^6.

Although Prince Edward Island did not have any census metropolitan areas according to the 2006 Census of Population, it is possible to identify those respondents who lived in the Charlottetown census subdivision (CSD) based on their postal code. Due to limitations of the sample design, it is only possible to report on a subset of the characteristics pertaining to water treatment.

^7.

Due to the relatively low number of respondents in the Saint John CMA that indicated they had a municipal water supply, many of the statistics related to the treatment of tap water cannot be released.

^8.

Due to the relatively low number of respondents in the Fredericton census agglomeration (CA) that indicated they had a municipal water supply, many of the statistics related to the treatment of tap water cannot be released.

^9.

The sampling methodology was designed to allow analysis at the census metropolitan area (CMA) level. The distribution of households in the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA means that the data quality of some values is such that the values cannot be released, particularly for the Quebec part of the CMA, which has approximately one-third of the number of households found in the Ontario part of the CMA.

^10.

Statistics Canada, Households and the Environment Survey 2007 (survey no. 3881), special tabulation.

^11.

Ibid.

^12.

Health Canada, 2007, Water Talk, (HC Pub: 4155; Cat.: H128-1/07/514E; ISBN: 978-0-662-46562-1).