Current Problems: Drinking Water Advisories
Exploring Theme: "Long-term DWA"
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July 25, 2023
Shoal Lake 40 sues Canada, Winnipeg for years without drinking water, road access
‘We shouldn’t have had to risk our survival just so Winnipeg could divert water,’ says chief. An old barge that would ferry people and goods from Shoal Lake 40 to the mainland. Photo: APTN file APTN News: A First Nation, whose lake supplies drinking water to the city of Winnipeg, is suing for a century...
August 7, 2019
Shoal Lake
Maclean’s – Shoal Lake 40 grabbed national attention when its members used a brassy campaign tactic, protesting outside Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights in 2014 to point out a glaring contradiction: the water flowing through the museum’s taps came from an isolated community without clean water and a road. Hundreds marched on the city’s...
June 2, 2019
Shoal Lake: Finally gets a road after Winnipeg aqueduct cuts them off
CBC – It took the federal and provinvial governments 100 years to re-connect Shoal Lake # 40 First Nation to the mainland after construction of an aqueduct in 1919 resulted in flooding that cut them off from the mainland and eventually from their own source of drinking water. Winnipeg gets its drinking water from Shoal...
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