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Have you ever heard of rain tax? A similar tax is going to be implemented in Toronto, Canada. This has been announced on the government website there.
Citizens constantly pay taxes on the things they buy or consume. This includes small to large products and public properties. Hospitals and roads are also built with this tax. Many times people will be seen complaining about arbitrary taxes. But in Canada, rain water will also be taxed.
Waterlogging created the need
Storm water management is a major problem across almost all of Canada, including Toronto. In the last rain, the streets of the country's capital Ottawa were flooded. It became difficult for people to even travel for important work. Such problems are common in Canada. To deal with this, storm drainage has been constructed. It is a special type of system through which excess water, which is not absorbed by the soil or plants, drains out. This method is adopted in all countries.
In fact, water does not dry out as quickly as concrete on paved areas such as roads, footpaths, car parks, houses etc. It overflows and starts flowing on the roads or blocking the drains.
This problem is more in Canada because there is not only rain but also heavy snowfall. This snow also produces runoff. Here let us tell you that water flow occurs when there is more rain than the soil can absorb. This not only causes flooding in Toronto, but as water starts entering homes through drains, the quality of drinking water also begins to deteriorate.