For several weeks in 2001, no one could drink the water in the City of North Battleford, Sask. (CBC)

Efforts are underway to settle one of the larger class-action lawsuits filed in the wake of 2001's contaminated drinking water scandal in North Battleford, Sask.

Some 2,000 people are represented in the class action, which is still before the courts. Two other cases, involving about 800 claimants, have previously been settled.

"It'll be nice for somebody to take responsibility for what happened," Trevor Moser, one of the people connected to the current class action, told CBC News. "Then it's final closure."

Moser claims he has suffered ongoing health issues since consuming water contaminated with the parasite cryptosporidium.

In 2001, the farmer from Kerrobert, Sask., was travelling through North Battleford and stopped for a drink of water.

Moser was hospitalized for 10 days and was sick for five months.

"I was really dehydrated," Moser recalled. "They had to start an IV on me right away so I could get my bodily fluids back up. And I was definitely worried about it."

An estimated 7,000 people were affected, to varying degrees, with vomiting, diarrhea and fever.

Today, Moser said he feels much better, but there are lingering health issues.

"I never had heartburn before and now it just seems to be frequent. I definitely noticed a change," he said.

An inquiry into the outbreak concluded that the City of North Battleford failed to provide and maintain a safe water supply, and that the provincial government had not done a good job regulating and inspecting the water system.

"There's some dialogue going on between the lawyers," Jim Toye, North Battleford's city manager, told CBC News about the ongoing lawsuit. While Toye is not directly involved in negotiations, he told CBC News that the city's lawyers have instructions to find common ground with the other side.

"Hopefully they'll be able to come to some type of mutual agreement on how this possibly could be settled prior to court," Toye said.

"Everybody should have safe drinking water to drink and don't have to worry about it," Moser said about the experience. "Everybody that goes through towns, travelling, should be able to pick up a glass of water and feel safe to drink it."

Since the outbreak, the city has overhauled its water treatment system and the provincial government has largely rewritten the standards required for drinking water.