Clean Drinking Water

• Hiawatha First Nation ends 20 years of boil water advisories with new treatment plant

  The water treatment plant features a centralized treatment unit, officer and garage buildings and a distribution system. Phase 1 will see 40 homes hooked up to the system.

  Health

  Oct 19, 2023
  
• Cumberland House declares state of emergency due to lack of water

  Cumberland House along with the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan are declaring a state of emergency due to a lack of water in the community's reservoir for the upcoming winter.

  Canada

  Oct 19, 2023
  
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• Ottawa to table ‘co-developed’ First Nations water legislation this fall: Hajdu

  The new bill is expected to come more than one year after Canada repealed the 2013 Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act in June 2022.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2023
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• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sues Winnipeg, feds over impacts of diverted drinking water

  The Winnipeg aqueduct, built in 1915, left the community accessible only by ice road in the winter or boat in the summer.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2023
• ‘We have to fix it faster’: 28 First Nations communities still under boil water advisories

  On World Water Day, more than 2 billion people around the globe are living without access to safe water, including many First Nations communities in Canada.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2023
• Some Cowichan Tribes homes get clean drinking water for the first time

  Members Cowichan Tribes have lived along Indian Road since the 1940s, but have not had potable water in that time, despite being just two kilometres from the City of Duncan.

  Environment

  Aug 22, 2022
• Hajdu hopeful all long-term boil water advisories lifted in Canada by 2025

  Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu hopes Canada will be able to lift its remaining long-term drinking water advisories by 2025.

  Canada

  Apr 2, 2022
• Trudeau announces $214M for Iqaluit water system after fuel contamination

  Iqaluit's roughly 8,000 residents couldn't drink their tap water for 60 days last fall after it was found to be contaminated with fuel.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2022
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• Iqaluit’s arctic temperatures hamper military efforts to fix water crisis

  Iqaluit has been under a state of emergency since Oct. 12 when fuel was found in the water at the city's treatment plant.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2021
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• Military headed to Iqaluit to help provide safe drinking water, Blair says

  The announcement comes 11 days after city officials told the 8,000 residents of Nunavut's capital city that their tap water had been contaminated with fuel.

  Canada

  Oct 22, 2021