boil water advisories

As part of #JusticeBeginsHere, Human Concern International has launched its national Water for Life campaign to educate Muslim Canadians on the lack of access in Indigenous communities.

The historic settlement could provide compensation to 142,000 individuals and 250 First Nations who were denied access to clean water.

Indigenous Services Canada won't set a deadline for lifting all remaining long-term drinking-water advisories in First Nations communities, but it will create a website to provide estimated completion dates for each one that remains.

A federal audit reveals shortcomings with the government’s strategy to eliminate long-term boil water advisories on reserves.

The federal government says it will not meet a marquee pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lift all boil-water advisories in First Nations communities by March 2021.

Reconciliation means many things, but access to clean water is an absolute requisite, writes David Suzuki.