first nation boil water advisory

a look at 3 boil water advisories

Shoal lake No. 40 water crisis

The advisory has been in place since 2/18/1997.

The is the community has endured isolation since their ancestral lands were expropriated to make way for the  construction of Winnipeg’s pipes and water supply infrastructure  in the early 1900s.

Mount Polley spill, Quesnel Lake

On Aug. 4, 2014, a dam holding back nearly five million cubic meters of toxic mine waste in the Mount Polley tailings pond burst, sending contaminated sludge into local waterways. People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history.

North Caribou lake first nation water crisis

in 2016 for the past 7 years, 230 households in a remote northwestern Ontario first nations community had gone without clean drinking water and proper sewage.

There were 4 ruptures in the main water line from the treatment facility, in 2017 the ruptures had been fixed but the community would remain under the boil water advisory until water contamination tests come back negative. The advisory is still active