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Fly-in community was expecting to have new water treatment facility by March 2018
Mar 28, 2019
It’s been about 25 years since residents in a fly-in Ojibway community in northwestern Ontario have been without clean, safe drinking water and it looks like they might have to wait at least a couple more years to have the longest standing boil water advisory in Canada, lifted.
Neskantaga First Nation, located approximately 450 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., was promised a new water treatment facility in 2015. The project was expected to be completed by the spring of 2018, however, nine months later, the facility was still incomplete.
Read More:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/neskantaga-prime-minister-bwa-1.5073496