Mar 22, 2023
Ottawa is celebrating Indigenous water operators, and renewing commitments to ending First Nations drinking water advisories, in honour of World Water Day.
In November of 2015, the Federal Government made their initial commitment to ending all long-term drinking water advisories in First Nations communities.
Since then, 138 advisories have been lifted across the country, good for 81 percent of all long-term advisories.
Meanwhile, Ottawa says work is underway with 28 First Nations to end the 32 long-term advisories which remain in place.
They also say that collaborative efforts have prevented 245 short-term advisories from becoming long-term since the original commitment.