Yorkton residents are being invited to share their experiences with local tap water through a new city survey. The Let’s Talk About Water survey is now open on the City of Yorkton’s Shape Your City portal and focuses on water quality, service reliability, interruptions, and water pressure.
The survey closes September 1, 2026, and takes about 10 minutes to complete. Residents who finish it can enter a draw for one of three $100 Visa gift cards. Information about the survey was included with residential water bills delivered in July and August.
The City of Yorkton issued a fraud advisory on July 31, 2026, after hearing that someone claiming to represent the water survey offered a prize and tried to enter a home. The city says it is not conducting door to door surveys, and the only official survey is the online one at yorkton.ca/watersurvey.
Feedback from the survey will help guide future water system decisions. The city’s H.M. Bailey Water Pollution Control Plant, originally opened in 1991, has reached the end of its operational life and is Yorkton’s highest priority capital project. Mayor Aaron Kienle recently travelled to Ottawa to press for federal funding for the plant upgrade, arguing that Yorkton’s food processing sector creates wastewater demands well beyond what a community of 17,000 would normally face.
Yorkton is the largest community in Saskatchewan that relies entirely on groundwater, drawing water from 12 wells across five regional aquifers before it reaches the Queen Street Water Treatment Plant. The system serves an effective footprint of about 40,000 people when industrial and commercial needs are included.
