INDEPTH: ABORIGINAL WATERS: A SLOW BOIL
Drinking and waste water on Canada's reserves: Saskatchewan
CBC News Online | February 20, 2006
In Saskatchewan, 18 per cent of reserve drinking water systems remain "at risk." Of the province's 148 First Nations water operators, 88 per cent are fully certified.
Rosalie Woloski visited the Gordon First Nation which is struggling with high arsenic levels in its water. < runs 8:03 >
2004-05 FINAL results for Water Systems at Risk |
|
| REGION |
total # of water systems |
# of
high-risk |
% of
high risk |
# med-risk |
%
med-risk |
| Alberta |
78 |
14 |
18% |
32 |
41% |
| Atlantic |
18 |
14 |
78% |
4 |
22% |
| BC |
285 |
89 |
31% |
150 |
53% |
| Manitoba |
67 |
0 |
0% |
31 |
46% |
| Ontario |
135 |
63 |
47% |
32 |
24% |
| Quebec |
38 |
9 |
24% |
13 |
34% |
| Sask. |
99 |
6 |
6% |
12 |
12% |
| Yukon |
18 |
8 |
44% |
9 |
50% |
| National |
738 |
203 |
28% |
283 |
38% |
* Source: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
The following files are of data from 2001 and 2002. There have been significant upgrades to many water treatment facilities since then. They will pop up in another window in Adobe PDF form
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