Oneida Nation of the Thames youth leader pushes for water treatment upgrades – Globalnews.ca
February 19, 2020
A youth leader of the Oneida Nation of the Thames is continuing his call for upgrades to the community’s water treatment facility.
The Oneida water treatment plant was built in 1998, prior to the tragedy in Walkerton where an E. coli contamination led to the deaths of six people in 2000.
The contamination in Walkerton led to significant policy changes across the country. In Ontario, the Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 2002, and the Federal Protocol for Centralized Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities in 2006.
“The existing water treatment plant doesn’t have the capacity to ensure safe drinking water,” says Brandon Doxtator, a youth leader at Oneida.
