My name is [Your Name], and you are my councillor in the City of Toronto as a constituent in Ward 4. I'm writing to bring your attention to the problem of water waste in our ward. I've noticed an increase in the amount of buildings and individual households that overwater their lawns during the day, wasting our valuable and depleting water supplies.


While the City of Toronto currently recommends that individuals and businesses water their lawns no more than once per week during off-peak hours (between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m.), this is only a guideline and not an enforceable bylaw (City of Toronto, 2020a). According to your website, the City can publish a 'Outdoor Water Use Advisory' when water supplies become scarce; but, this does not have the same legal heft as a formal bylaw (City of Toronto, 2020b).


According to Survis and Root (2016), lawn watering accounts for 50% to 90% of household water usage in urban areas. Watering lawns during peak daytime hours not only wastes water but also exposes grass to disease-causing evaporation (Survis and Root, 2016). With water demand estimated to climb by 40% by 2050 and water shortages affecting more than half of the world's population by 2025, solving this issue has become critical (Eliasson, 2015).


I strongly urge you to submit an enforceable bylaw prohibiting grass watering between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. To help enforce this bylaw, the city should consider recruiting 100 more bylaw officers to actively patrol the city, respond to allegations of infractions, and assure compliance. It is clear that depending on voluntary behavioural change is insufficient, and given the urgency of the situation, we must enact policies that effectively compel residents to practise appropriate water usage.

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