‘Our water should never be that dirty’: the water crisis in First Nations is about staffing too – The Narwhal

Sept. 19, 2025

In many Ontario Indigenous communities, water treatment plants are staffed by a single person. A training program is trying to change that

Staccato IV beeps and electrical whirs disrupted the worried air of Chris Wemigwans’s son’s quarantined hospital room in Sudbury, Ont.

It was 2017, and Wemigwans’s 14-year-old son had spent the past week being poked and prodded to determine what illness was ravaging his growing body. Every test only muddied potential diagnoses, but all signs pointed to meningitis.

“My son was on death watch,” Wemigwans said.

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