When will First Nations in southern Ontario get clean drinking water? – TVO.org
Tyendinaga has been under a boil-water advisory for 10 years — something the chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte is calling an instance of “environmental racism”
May 04, 2018
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY — As of June, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation will have been living under a long-term drinking water advisory for 10 years.
Chief Don Maracle is getting tired of waiting for a solution.
“First Nations have been getting water treatment plants now for a few decades. We were one of the last on the list to get a water treatment plant. Why, I don’t know,” Maracle says. “We’re the fourth-largest [Indigenous] community in Ontario, but it’s whoever they say is a priority.”
In the meantime, his hopes ride on a promise. In January, the federal Indigenous Affairs department told the community that it’s near the top of a list of First Nation communities in urgent need of clean drinking water.
