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The program that helped a 19-year-old solve his First Nations' drinking water problems is seeking federal funding to continue.
Keewaytinook Okimakanak's (Northern Chiefs Council) Safe Water project provides real-time monitoring of water treatment plants in five First Nations in northwestern Ontario. It also provides support, training and certification for water plant operators.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says the provinces and federal government should be ashamed if they can't find a way to provide clean drinking water to First Nations communities across Canada.
First Nations' leaders from northern Ontario declared a public-health emergency last week, asking for a detailed intervention plan to ensure communities have access to safe, clean drinking water.
More than 300,000 Canadians contract an acute stomach bug every year from the municipally-supplied water that comes out of their taps, some likely ending up in hospital or even dying, a new government study suggests.
The Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario is demanding that all federal parties make First Nations health an election issue.
The fly-in community in the James Bay lowlands has the longest-standing boil-water advisory in the country — more than 20 years. More than 300 people have been forced to live under a boil water advisory since 1995.
A reserve cut off from the mainland and under a boil-water advisory for almost two decades is taking its case to the United Nations.
Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which straddles the Manitoba-Ontario boundary, became isolated a century ago during construction of an aqueduct which carries water to Winnipeg. The reserve has no all-weather road and has been without clean water for 17 years.
On November 19, 2015, James Smith Cree Nation welcomed about 50 people for an open house at their integrated biological reverse osmosis membrane water treatment plant. The attendees were a mixture of First Nations, James Smith Indian Reserve residents, including James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) Chief, Justin Burns, visitors from Stanley Mission, industry representatives, two representatives from the Water Security Agency, and main presenter, Dr. Hans Peterson.
