‘YOUTH ARE DYING’: Shamattawa fighting feds for clean drinking water – Winnipeg Sun

Sep 09, 2024

A northern Manitoba chief is blasting the federal government and pleading for safe drinking water in his community.

Shamattawa First Nation Chief Jordna Hill said a boil-water advisory has dragged into its sixth year and brings harm and in many cases hopelessness to the Shamattawa First Nation.

“Our youth and our people deserve to live a good life, yet Canada doesn’t even see us as worthy of having safe drinking water,” he said during media conference in Winnipeg last week.

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