Editing Red Deer, Alberta (section)

== Infrastructure ==
;Health care
The [[Red Deer Regional Hospital]] is undergoing a significant expansion.

;Water
Red Deer receives its drinking water supply from the Red Deer River which is treated and distributed throughout the city.<ref>{{cite web|last1=The City of Red Deer|title=Water Quality|url=http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/water/water-quality/|website=Water Quality|publisher=City of Red Deer|access-date=July 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917032534/http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/water/water-quality/|archive-date=2015-09-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> One distinct feature of the water distribution system is the Horton Water Spheroid which, at the time of its construction in 1957, was the world's largest spheroid shaped reservoir.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mountview Heritage Sites Gallery|title=Horton Water Spheroid|url=http://www.reddeer.ca/about-red-deer/history/heritage/community-heritage-planning/red-deers-inventory-of-heritage-sites/mountview-heritage-sites-gallery/cul---horton-water-spheroid.html|access-date=July 30, 2015}}</ref>

Water from the Red Deer water treatment plant is distributed to neighbouring communities including Red Deer County, Lacombe, Blackfalds and Ponoka as managed by the North Red Deer Regional Water Services Commission.<ref>{{cite web|last1=City of Red Deer|title=Water Conservation|url=http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/water/water-conservation/|access-date=July 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917032245/http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/water/water-conservation/|archive-date=2015-09-17|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=The City of Red Deer|title=Wastewater|url=http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/wastewater/|website=Treating Your Wastewater|access-date=July 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512064152/http://www.reddeer.ca/city-services/water-wastewater-and-storm/wastewater/|archive-date=2015-05-12|url-status=dead}}</ref>